Longfellow Elementary

Located at 512 Balcom St, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Longfellow Elementary is a mid-sized elementary campus that caters to 290 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Eau Claire Area School District.

Eau Claire Area School District runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 10,687 students. Longfellow Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Longfellow Elementary shows that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 27% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 7% Asian, 3% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Eau Claire County (around 37%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Longfellow Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.9%, the actual is 41.3%, a residual of +3.4 points.

Around the school, census data for Eau Claire County shows median household earnings sit near $74,546, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Eau Claire County runs 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,002 students), of which Longfellow Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Eau Claire Community Sites, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Longfellow Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 54.4%.

Longfellow Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 10%: 263 students in 2018 compared to 290 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 5% to 27%.

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