Houlton Elementary

Houlton Elementary operates as a close-knit elementary-level community in Houlton, Wisconsin, run under Hudson School District. Current enrollment sits at 217 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Houlton Elementary sits 33% below that benchmark.

Within Hudson School District, which oversees 10 schools and 5,119 students, Houlton Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Houlton Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). The remainder looks like 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with St. Croix County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 9% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against St. Croix County (around 22%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Houlton Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.3%, the actual is 84.9%, a residual of +12.6 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for St. Croix County indicate median household income runs about $103,046, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, St. Croix County runs 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,266 students), of which Houlton Elementary is one.

Falcon View Online Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Houlton Elementary operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Houlton Elementary has stayed largely flat, going from 222 students in 2018 to 217 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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