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Clintonville Elementary School
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 41% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Wisconsin's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Clintonville Elementary School
Clintonville Elementary School is one of the well-populated elementary-level communitys in Clintonville, Wisconsin, overseen by Clintonville School District, with 505 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 56% above typical.
Within Clintonville School District, which oversees 3 schools and 1,121 students, Clintonville Elementary School is one campus in the system.
On demographics, Clintonville Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). The remainder reads as 12% Hispanic. By comparison, Waupaca County as a whole is about 93% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Clintonville Elementary School records 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Waupaca County (around 43%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Clintonville Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Wisconsin schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 41.2%; actual is 54.7%, +13.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the surrounding community, census data for Waupaca County shows median household income runs about $72,830, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Waupaca County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,466 students), of which Clintonville Elementary School is one.
The closest other public school is Clintonville Middle, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Clintonville Elementary School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 44.4%.
The school occupies a town-based site.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clintonville Elementary School has climbed 29%, going from 390 students in 2018 to 505 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.
In the discussion threads here, members of the Clintonville Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Waupaca County at a glance
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