Florence Elementary

Florence Elementary is a close-knit elementary campus in Florence, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Florence County School District. The school educates 197 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 39% below the state mean of about 323.

Florence County School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 369 students. Florence Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Florence Elementary reports that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 4% Hispanic, 3% Native American. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.8:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Florence Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.0%, the actual is 46.4%, a residual of -2.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Florence County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,086 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Florence Elementary is one of 3 public schools in Florence County (combined enrollment of about 369 students).

Florence Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Florence Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 58.5%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Florence Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 225 (now 197). Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.

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