Enrollment
178
Elementary
DISTRICT 247 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WISCONSIN RAPIDS SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 551707002206
Grove Elementary
471 Grove Ave, Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54494 · (715) 424-6769 · Wood County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL178 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 61% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
9.6:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
121 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 42%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 34 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 31 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 29 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 32 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 30 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 22 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is 55% larger than its 5th grade class (22).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Grove Elementary→Wisconsin Rapids Area Middle
Based on grade levels within Wisconsin Rapids School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
39.2%
WI avg 53.1% . -10.2pp since 2023
Math
51.9%
WI avg 54.8% . -2.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.2% | 51.9% |
| 2023-24 | 49.4% | 54.0% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
52.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.9%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 36% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Wisconsin's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Grove Elementary
Grove Elementary's state test result (52.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grove Elementary this school | 178 | 68.0% | 52.9% |
| Stephen Foster Elementary Charter Appleton | 200 | 64.5% | 50.0% |
| Roosevelt Elementary Oshkosh | 235 | 62.6% | 38.0% |
| Hawthorn Hills Elementary Wausau | 227 | 70.9% | 47.4% |
| Jackson Elementary Sheboygan | 295 | 61.0% | 54.5% |
| North Woods International School La Crosse | 255 | 58.8% | 46.6% |
Matched among Wisconsin elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Grove Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Wood County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.9% | #573 of 982 | #11 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.9% | #559 of 992 ▲ 5 | #10 of 15 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.2% | #751 of 992 ▼ 143 | #13 of 15 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 178 | #948 of 1,157 | #16 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.0% | #199 of 1,064 | #2 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -35.3% | #42 of 664 | #1 of 12 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
178
-48 (-21%) vs 2020
-39% since 1990-91, when it was 293
Student : Teacher
9.6:1
was 10.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 178 | 18.5 | 9.6:1 | 68% (121) |
| 2023-24 | 198 | 19.2 | 10.3:1 | 75% (149) |
| 2022-23 | 197 | 23 | 8.6:1 | 73% (144) |
| 2020-21 | 226 | 22 | 10.3:1 | 65% (146) |
| 2017-18 | 275 | 20.7 | 13.3:1 | 60% (164) |
| 2015-16 | 291 | 24 | 12.1:1 | 57% (166) |
| 2010-11 | 290 | 21 | 13.8:1 | 52% (150) |
| 2000-01 | 334 | 26 | 12.8:1 | 22% (72) |
| 1990-91 | 293 | 15 | 19.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Grove Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 35% (275 to 178); teachers down 11% (20.7 to 18.5).
About Grove Elementary
Grove Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school for students in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. There are 178 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 5. That puts enrollment 45% below the 323-student average for elementary schools in Wisconsin.
Grove Elementary is one of the 12 schools that make up Wisconsin Rapids School District (4,578 students in total).
More than half of enrollment at Grove Elementary is White: 61%. The next largest groups are 13% Asian, 13% Hispanic, and 11% multiracial. The school's White share is 30 points below the 91% share among Wood County residents. The diversity index for Grove Elementary is 58%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Teacher count: 18.5 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 9.6:1. Across elementary schools in Wisconsin, the average ratio is 14.7:1. Roughly 68% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 43% average for public schools in Wood County is 25 points.
Grove Elementary holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 61% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations places Grove Elementary in the top 10% of Wisconsin schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 16.9 points above it (52.9% actual, 35.9% predicted).
Wood County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $67,989 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 21% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Public schools in Wood County number 32, with about 10,849 students.
Woodside Elementary, about 0.5 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Grove Elementary ranks 3rd of 7 on average proficiency.
The school's federal locale classification is Town: Distant.
Enrollment was 178 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 226.
The discussion board for Grove Elementary is open to topics like special education services, counseling, and support programs. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Wood County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
74,004
Census ACS
Median income
$67,989
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
32
10,849 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wisconsin Rapids School District
- Lincoln HighHigh · 1,337 students
- Wisconsin Rapids Area MiddleMiddle · 943 students
- Woodside ElementaryElementary · 354 students
- Howe ElementaryElementary · 336 students
- Washington ElementaryElementary · 322 students
- Grant ElementaryElementary · 267 students
Other schools in Wisconsin Rapids
- Lincoln HighHigh · 1,337 students
- Wisconsin Rapids Area MiddleMiddle · 943 students
- Woodside ElementaryElementary · 354 students
- Howe ElementaryElementary · 336 students
- Washington ElementaryElementary · 322 students
- Grant ElementaryElementary · 267 students
Other Grove Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Grove Elementary. Grove Elementary is the 5th largest of the 5.
- Grove ElementaryPiedmont, SC · 622 students
- Grove Elementary SchoolTulsa, OK · 552 students
- Grove Elementary SchoolNormal, IL · 519 students
- Grove ElementaryMarysville, WA · 392 students
Nearby schools
- Woodside Elementary0.5 mi · 354
- Lincoln High1.0 mi · 1,337
- Central Oaks Academy1.1 mi · 88
- WRPS / Pitsch Early Learning1.4 mi · 208
- Howe Elementary1.4 mi · 336
- Wisconsin Rapids Area Middle1.7 mi · 943
Frequently asked questions
About Grove ElementaryHow large is Grove Elementary?
Grove Elementary enrolls approximately 178 students in grades PK-05.
Is Grove Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Grove Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Grove Elementary have?
Grove Elementary employs 18 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Grove Elementary?
Student demographics at Grove Elementary are roughly 61% White, 13% Hispanic, 1% Black, 13% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is Grove Elementary public or private?
Grove Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Wisconsin Rapids School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.