Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Roselawn Elementary

Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Roselawn Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Chetek, Wisconsin, operated by Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Area School District. Current enrollment sits at 429 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 33% bigger than typical.

Across the 4 schools in Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Area School District (924 students total), Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Roselawn Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Roselawn Elementary reports that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Barron County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Roselawn Elementary has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 45% of students at Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Roselawn Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Roselawn Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.0%, the actual is 61.3%, a residual of +11.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Barron County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $65,933 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Barron County's 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,199 students), Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Roselawn Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle, around 0.5 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Roselawn Elementary at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 56.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Roselawn Elementary's enrollment has shrank 13% since 2018, when it stood at 491 (now 429). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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