Haugen Elementary

Haugen Elementary operates as an one-room-style elementary campus in Haugen, Wisconsin, overseen by Rice Lake Area School District. Current enrollment sits at 83 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 74% below the state mean of about 323.

Rice Lake Area School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,096 students. Haugen Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Haugen Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%); the rest looks like 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Barron County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Roughly 46% of students at Haugen Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Haugen Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.6%, the actual is 62.0%, a residual of +12.4 points.

In the surrounding community, Barron County reports that median household income runs about $65,933, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Barron County runs 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,199 students), of which Haugen Elementary is one.

Hilltop Day Care and Preschool is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.7 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 5 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Haugen Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 56.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Haugen Elementary has edged down 7%, going from 89 students in 2018 to 83 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.