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Eagle Bluff Elementary
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Eagle Bluff Elementary
Located at 200 Eagle Bluff Ct, in Onalaska, Wisconsin, Eagle Bluff Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that caters to 471 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Onalaska School District. That puts it 46% above the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.
Onalaska School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,920 students; Eagle Bluff Elementary is among them.
In terms of who attends, Eagle Bluff Elementary lists that White students make up the majority at 70%; the rest is composed of 15% Asian, 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than La Crosse County's rate of about 35%.
With demographic context factored in, Eagle Bluff Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.9%, the actual is 70.5%, a residual of +7.6 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for La Crosse County indicate median household income runs about $73,013, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Eagle Bluff Elementary is one of 38 public schools in La Crosse County (combined enrollment of about 14,903 students).
The closest other public school is Onalaska Prekindergarten Partner School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Eagle Bluff Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Eagle Bluff Elementary at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 50.2%.
The campus sits in a city-core setting.
Five-year trend. Eagle Bluff Elementary's enrollment has declined 21% since 2018, when it stood at 593 (now 471). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 78% to 70%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.
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