Enrollment
151
Elementary
DISTRICT 228 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LA CROSSE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550753000858
Hamilton Elementary School
1111 7th St S, La Crosse, WI 54601 · (608) 789-7695 · La Crosse County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL151 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 9% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
7.6:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.1:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
121 students
DISTRICT 46% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 26 | 17% |
| Kindergarten | 22 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 15 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 24 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 21 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 24 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 19 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (22) is 16% larger than its 5th grade class (19).
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
21.7%
WI avg 53.1% . -6.4pp since 2023
Math
13.3%
WI avg 54.8% . -14.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 15 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.7% | 13.3% |
| 2023-24 | 28.1% | 28.1% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
21.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.5%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% 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%.
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 Hamilton Elementary School
Hamilton Elementary School's state test result (21.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton Elementary School this school | 151 | 80.1% | 21.3% |
| Lindbergh Elementary Madison | 180 | 77.2% | 24.4% |
| Gegan Elementary Menasha | 258 | 70.5% | 39.1% |
| Bowler Elementary Bowler | 156 | 77.6% | 36.0% |
| Columbus Elementary Appleton | 88 | 70.5% | 33.6% |
| Beaumont Elementary Green Bay | 220 | 72.7% | 30.9% |
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 Hamilton Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In La Crosse County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.3% | #892 of 982 | #20 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.3% | #929 of 992 ▼ 73 | #20 of 20 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.7% | #889 of 992 ▼ 38 | #20 of 20 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 151 | #995 of 1,157 | #18 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.1% | #119 of 1,064 | #2 of 20 |
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
151
-25 (-14%) vs 2020
-67% since 1990-91, when it was 455
Student : Teacher
7.6:1
was 9.3:1
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 | 151 | 19.9 | 7.6:1 | 80% (121) |
| 2023-24 | 146 | 19.6 | 7.5:1 | 84% (123) |
| 2022-23 | 154 | 17.9 | 8.6:1 | 84% (129) |
| 2020-21 | 176 | 19 | 9.3:1 | 84% (147) |
| 2017-18 | 189 | 18.3 | 10.3:1 | 64% (121) |
| 2015-16 | 207 | 18 | 11.5:1 | 72% (149) |
| 2010-11 | 121 | 10 | 12.1:1 | 74% (89) |
| 2000-01 | 229 | 20 | 11.4:1 | 36% (82) |
| 1990-91 | 455 | 35 | 13.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hamilton Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (189 to 151); teachers up 9% (18.3 to 19.9).
About Hamilton Elementary School
Federal records list Hamilton Elementary School as an elementary school in La Crosse, Wisconsin. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 151 students enrolled. Elementary schools in Wisconsin have about 323 students on average; enrollment here is 53% lower.
La Crosse School District is made up of 19 schools with 5,717 students in all.
The biggest share of students at Hamilton Elementary School, 35%, is White. The rest of enrollment is 24% multiracial, 23% Black, 11% Hispanic, and 7% Asian. Census estimates put the White share of La Crosse County's population at about 88%. The diversity index for Hamilton Elementary School is 75%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Teacher count: 19.9 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 7.6:1. Compared with the 14.7:1 average for elementary schools in Wisconsin, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 80%. Among public schools in La Crosse County, the average eligibility rate is 35%.
Among Wisconsin public elementary schools, Hamilton Elementary School outscored 9%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, Hamilton Elementary School is 7.2 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Wisconsin schools.
La Crosse County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $73,013 a year, roughly 37% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in La Crosse County number 38, with about 14,903 students.
A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, School of Technology and Arts I, is the closest to Hamilton Elementary School. Hamilton Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 57.9%, higher than Hamilton Elementary School's 21.3%.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Small.
The school's student count decreased 14% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. By 2024-25, the school had 7.6 students per teacher, compared with 9.3 in 2020-21.
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La Crosse County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
120,488
Census ACS
Median income
$73,013
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
38
14,903 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in La Crosse School District
- Central HighHigh · 969 students
- Logan HighHigh · 729 students
- Longfellow MiddleMiddle · 631 students
- Logan MiddleMiddle · 424 students
- Southern Bluffs ElementaryElementary · 333 students
- Spence ElementaryElementary · 329 students
Other schools in La Crosse
- Central HighHigh · 969 students
- Logan HighHigh · 729 students
- Longfellow MiddleMiddle · 631 students
- Logan MiddleMiddle · 424 students
- Southern Bluffs ElementaryElementary · 333 students
- Spence ElementaryElementary · 329 students
Other Hamilton Elementary schools
27 other US public schools in 17 states are named Hamilton Elementary. Hamilton Elementary School is the 27th largest of the 28.
- Hamilton Elementary SchoolColumbus, OH · 1,028 students
- Hamilton Elementary SchoolCYPRESS, TX · 999 students
- Hamilton ElementaryFresno, CA · 811 students
- HAMILTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSANFORD, FL · 671 students
- Hamilton Elementary SchoolHamilton, AL · 638 students
Nearby schools
- School of Technology and Arts I0.0 mi · 104
- Coulee Region Virtual Academy0.7 mi · 102
- La Crosse Polytechnic School0.7 mi · 86
- La Crosse Offsite Preschool0.9 mi · 104
- Longfellow Middle1.0 mi · 631
- Spence Elementary1.5 mi · 329
Frequently asked questions
About Hamilton Elementary SchoolHow large is Hamilton Elementary School?
Hamilton Elementary School enrolls approximately 151 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Hamilton Elementary School serve?
Hamilton Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hamilton Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hamilton Elementary School is approximately 7.6:1 (20 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hamilton Elementary School?
At Hamilton Elementary School, the student body is approximately 35% White, 11% Hispanic, 23% Black, 7% Asian, 24% Two or more.
What district is Hamilton Elementary School in?
Hamilton Elementary School is part of La Crosse School District.
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