Enrollment
314
Elementary
DISTRICT 340 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAU CLAIRE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550405000708
Lakeshore Elementary
711 Lake St, Eau Claire, WI 54703 · (715) 852-3400 · Eau Claire County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL314 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 41% 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.
- B-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
10.8:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
169 students
DISTRICT 40% · 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 | 42 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 58 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (42) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (44).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 46% · 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
49.3%
WI avg 53.1% . -1.1pp since 2023
Math
49.3%
WI avg 54.8% . +3.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.3% | 49.3% |
| 2023-24 | 50.4% | 45.7% |
% 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
49.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.6%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 Lakeshore Elementary
Lakeshore Elementary's state test result (49.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Elementary this school | 314 | 53.8% | 49.5% |
| Northwoods Elementary Eau Claire | 304 | 52.0% | 62.5% |
| Halmstad Elementary Chippewa Falls | 355 | 51.5% | 66.0% |
| Summit Environmental School La Crosse | 295 | 51.5% | 42.9% |
| Jefferson Elementary Stevens Point | 276 | 53.6% | 60.2% |
| Washington Elementary Wisconsin Rapids | 322 | 48.8% | 58.0% |
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 Lakeshore Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Eau Claire County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.5% | #630 of 982 | #15 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.3% | #603 of 992 ▲ 74 | #14 of 17 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.3% | #584 of 992 ▼ 2 | #12 of 17 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 314 | #572 of 1,157 | #10 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #109 of 901 | #4 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.4% | #270 of 901 | #3 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.8% | #352 of 1,064 | #3 of 18 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.8% | #92 of 664 | #2 of 11 |
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
314
-22 (-7%) vs 2020
-13% since 2000-01, when it was 362
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 314 | 29.2 | 10.8:1 | 54% (169) |
| 2023-24 | 299 | 28 | 10.7:1 | 56% (168) |
| 2022-23 | 328 | 27.7 | 11.8:1 | 57% (186) |
| 2020-21 | 336 | 25 | 13.4:1 | 59% (198) |
| 2017-18 | 441 | 34.9 | 12.6:1 | 53% (232) |
| 2015-16 | 439 | 36 | 12.2:1 | 56% (246) |
| 2010-11 | 412 | 32 | 12.9:1 | 63% (260) |
| 2000-01 | 362 | 25 | 14.5:1 | 26% (93) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lakeshore Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (441 to 314); teachers down 16% (34.9 to 29.2).
About Lakeshore Elementary
Lakeshore Elementary is one of the public schools in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It is a medium-sized elementary school. The school counts 314 students across kindergarten through 5.
Lakeshore Elementary is one school in Eau Claire Area School District, a system of 23 schools with 10,687 students.
Lakeshore Elementary's enrollment is 66% White. Other groups make up 10% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 8% Asian, and 5% Black. County-wide, 88% of Eau Claire County residents are White. By the diversity index, Lakeshore Elementary comes in at 54%.
The teaching staff at Lakeshore Elementary is 29.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 10.8:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Wisconsin is 14.7:1, higher than at this school. About 54% of students, or 169, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Eau Claire County averages 37%, lower than here.
allk12 grades Lakeshore Elementary a C+. The grade compares the school only with Wisconsin public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Lakeshore Elementary sits between the top and bottom 10% of Wisconsin schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 49.5% and a predicted 44.6%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Eau Claire County show that median household income is about $74,546, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Lakeshore Elementary is one of 36 public schools in Eau Claire County, which together enroll about 14,002 students.
Second Avenue School is located about 0.6 miles from Lakeshore Elementary. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The school's 49.5% average proficiency ranks 4th among 6 nearby schools.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Small, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The number of students declined from 336 to 314 over 4 years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 10.8:1, from 13.4:1.
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Eau Claire County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
107,116
Census ACS
Median income
$74,546
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
36
14,002 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Eau Claire Area School District
- North HighHigh · 1,567 students
- Memorial HighHigh · 1,558 students
- DeLong MiddleMiddle · 893 students
- South MiddleMiddle · 797 students
- Northstar MiddleMiddle · 529 students
- Robbins ElementaryElementary · 522 students
Other schools in Eau Claire
- North HighHigh · 1,567 students
- Memorial HighHigh · 1,558 students
- DeLong MiddleMiddle · 893 students
- South MiddleMiddle · 797 students
- Northstar MiddleMiddle · 529 students
- Robbins ElementaryElementary · 522 students
Other Lakeshore Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 5 states are named Lakeshore Elementary. Lakeshore Elementary is the 6th largest of the 6.
- Lakeshore ElementaryFond du Lac, WI · 354 students
- Lakeshore Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 862 students
- Lakeshore ElementaryMooresville, NC · 658 students
- Lakeshore Elementary SchoolHOLLAND, MI · 440 students
- LAKESHORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLROCHESTER, NY · 387 students
Nearby schools
- Second Avenue School0.6 mi · 16
- Chippewa Valley Montessori Charter School0.7 mi · 301
- Eau Claire Virtual School1.0 mi · 147
- Eau Claire Community Sites1.0 mi · 435
- Putnam Heights Elementary1.3 mi · 422
- DeLong Middle1.4 mi · 893
Frequently asked questions
About Lakeshore ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Lakeshore Elementary?
Lakeshore Elementary enrolls approximately 314 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Lakeshore Elementary serve?
Lakeshore Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Lakeshore Elementary have?
Lakeshore Elementary employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Lakeshore Elementary?
Student demographics at Lakeshore Elementary are roughly 66% White, 8% Hispanic, 5% Black, 8% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees Lakeshore Elementary?
Lakeshore Elementary is overseen by Eau Claire Area School District in Eau Claire County.
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