Greenwood Elementary

Greenwood Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in River Falls, Wisconsin, part of River Falls School District. The school caters to 409 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 27% bigger than the state mean of about 323.

River Falls School District runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,442 students. Greenwood Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Greenwood Elementary logs that nearly all students (83%) are White. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 92% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Greenwood Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.5%, the actual is 71.0%, a residual of +5.5 points.

Across the wider county, Pierce County reports that median household income runs about $92,109, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Pierce County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,419 students), of which Greenwood Elementary is one.

Meyer Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Greenwood Elementary. On composite proficiency, Greenwood Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 65.0%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 405 students in 2018 compared to 409 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 87% to 83% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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