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Greenfield Elementary
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Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 Greenfield Elementary
Greenfield Elementary is one of the expansive elementary campuss in Baldwin, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Baldwin-Woodville Area School District, with 770 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 138% bigger than the state mean of about 323.
Baldwin-Woodville Area School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,678 students. Greenfield Elementary is one of those campuses.
Demographically, Greenfield Elementary shows that nearly all students (89%) are White. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Greenfield Elementary logs 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Greenfield Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 31% of students at Greenfield Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of St. Croix County's rate of about 22%.
With demographic context factored in, Greenfield Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.9%, the actual is 61.9%, a residual of +2.9 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (St. Croix County) logs that median household earnings sit near $103,046, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across St. Croix County's 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,266 students), Greenfield Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Baldwin-Woodville High, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Greenfield Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.4%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Greenfield Elementary has declined 13%, going from 884 students in 2018 to 770 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.
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