Enrollment
118
Elementary
DISTRICT 228 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LA CROSSE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550753001463
Coulee Montessori Charter School
1611 Kane St, La Crosse, WI 54601 · (608) 789-7970 · La Crosse County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL118 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
9 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.1:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
78 students
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 42%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 8 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 22 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 18 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 16 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 16 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 18 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 16 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 4 | 3% |
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
31.2%
WI avg 53.1% . +0.4pp since 2023
Math
22.9%
WI avg 54.8% . +1.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.2% | 22.9% |
| 2023-24 | 30.8% | 21.2% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
28.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.1%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Coulee Montessori Charter School
Coulee Montessori Charter School's state test result (28.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coulee Montessori Charter School this school | 118 | 66.1% | 28.7% |
| Redgranite Elementary Redgranite | 130 | 63.1% | 33.1% |
| Prentice Elementary Prentice | 133 | 61.7% | 53.9% |
| Winter Elementary Winter | 93 | 67.7% | 48.1% |
| North Elementary Antigo | 154 | 72.1% | 36.8% |
| Taft Elementary Neenah | 179 | 59.2% | 37.3% |
Matched among Wisconsin elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Coulee Montessori Charter School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In La Crosse County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.7% | #851 of 982 | #18 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.9% | #874 of 992 ▲ 16 | #18 of 20 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.2% | #821 of 992 ▲ 4 | #17 of 20 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 118 | #1,056 of 1,157 | #19 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.1% | #216 of 1,064 | #4 of 20 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
118
-36 (-23%) vs 2020
+74% since 2000-01, when it was 68
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 17.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 118 | 8.5 | 13.8:1 | 66% (78) |
| 2023-24 | 115 | 8.3 | 13.8:1 | 68% (78) |
| 2022-23 | 147 | 7.3 | 20.1:1 | 64% (94) |
| 2020-21 | 154 | 9 | 17.1:1 | 55% (84) |
| 2017-18 | 169 | 10.4 | 16.2:1 | 49% (82) |
| 2015-16 | 159 | 8 | 19.9:1 | 52% (82) |
| 2010-11 | 133 | 8 | 16.6:1 | 36% (48) |
| 2000-01 | 68 | 3 | 22.7:1 | 35% (24) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Coulee Montessori Charter School.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (169 to 118); teachers down 18% (10.4 to 8.5).
About Coulee Montessori Charter School
Families in La Crosse, Wisconsin, are served by Coulee Montessori Charter School, a small elementary school. Enrolled students number 118 students, in pre-K through 6. Enrollment is 63% lower than the average for elementary schools in Wisconsin, which is about 323.
La Crosse School District has 19 schools; together they serve 5,717 students.
White students are the majority at Coulee Montessori Charter School, with 72% of enrollment. Other groups make up 10% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 6% Asian, and 4% Black. La Crosse County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school's share is lower. Pick two students at random and there is a 46% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Staffing totals 8.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.8:1. On average, elementary schools in Wisconsin have 14.7:1, compared with 13.8:1 here. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Coulee Montessori Charter School is 66%. That is higher than the 35% average for public schools in La Crosse County.
The allk12 Grade for Coulee Montessori Charter School is D. Compared with Wisconsin public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 11% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Schools in Wisconsin with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 37.1%. Coulee Montessori Charter School scores 28.7%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for La Crosse County show that the median household income is $73,013, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Besides Coulee Montessori Charter School, La Crosse County has 37 other public schools.
The shortest distance from Coulee Montessori Charter School to another public school is less than a tenth of a mile, to Northside Elementary. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Coulee Montessori Charter School ranks 8th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
The NCES locale for Coulee Montessori Charter School is City: Small, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000. Coulee Montessori Charter School is run as a public charter school.
Enrollment is down 23% from 2020-21, when Coulee Montessori Charter School had 154 students, to 2024-25, when it had 118. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 13.8:1, from 17.1:1.
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La Crosse County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
120,488
Census ACS
Median income
$73,013
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
38
14,903 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in La Crosse School District
- Central HighHigh · 969 students
- Logan HighHigh · 729 students
- Longfellow MiddleMiddle · 631 students
- Logan MiddleMiddle · 424 students
- Southern Bluffs ElementaryElementary · 333 students
- Spence ElementaryElementary · 329 students
Other schools in La Crosse
- Central HighHigh · 969 students
- Logan HighHigh · 729 students
- Longfellow MiddleMiddle · 631 students
- Logan MiddleMiddle · 424 students
- Southern Bluffs ElementaryElementary · 333 students
- Spence ElementaryElementary · 329 students
Nearby schools
- Northside Elementary0.0 mi · 237
- School of Technology and Arts II0.3 mi · 39
- Logan Middle0.3 mi · 424
- Logan High0.4 mi · 729
- Summit Environmental School1.3 mi · 295
- Onalaska High2.1 mi · 925
Frequently asked questions
About Coulee Montessori Charter SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Coulee Montessori Charter School?
Coulee Montessori Charter School enrolls approximately 118 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Coulee Montessori Charter School serve?
Coulee Montessori Charter School serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many teachers does Coulee Montessori Charter School have?
Coulee Montessori Charter School employs 9 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Coulee Montessori Charter School?
Student demographics at Coulee Montessori Charter School are roughly 72% White, 7% Hispanic, 4% Black, 6% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Coulee Montessori Charter School in?
Coulee Montessori Charter School is part of La Crosse School District.
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