Fall Creek Elementary

Fall Creek Elementary, a mid-tier elementary school in Fall Creek, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Fall Creek School District, serves 414 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 28% larger than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

Fall Creek School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 949 students; Fall Creek Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Fall Creek Elementary logs that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 2% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Eau Claire County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fall Creek Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 50.3%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Eau Claire County) shows that median household earnings sit near $74,546, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Fall Creek Elementary is one of 36 public schools in Eau Claire County (combined enrollment of about 14,002 students).

Nearest neighbor: Fall Creek Middle, around 0.0 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Fall Creek Elementary at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 51.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fall Creek Elementary has edged up 3%, going from 401 students in 2018 to 414 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

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