Enrollment
290
Elementary
DISTRICT 340 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAU CLAIRE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550405000425
Longfellow Elementary
512 Balcom St, Eau Claire, WI 54703 · (715) 852-3800 · Eau Claire County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL290 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 28% 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
10.3:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
188 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 | 51 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 38 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 9% larger than its 5th grade class (47).
Student demographics
69%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
40.0%
WI avg 53.1% . -1.2pp since 2023
Math
37.8%
WI avg 54.8% . -3.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 down about 3 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 37.8% |
| 2023-24 | 41.2% | 41.2% |
% 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
41.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.9%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% 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 Longfellow Elementary
Longfellow Elementary's state test result (41.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Longfellow Elementary this school | 290 | 64.8% | 41.3% |
| Evans Elementary Fond du Lac | 279 | 65.6% | 56.5% |
| Koenig Elementary Two Rivers | 326 | 66.9% | 31.5% |
| Irving Elementary West Allis | 375 | 59.5% | 42.6% |
| Franklin Elementary West Allis | 244 | 67.2% | 37.0% |
| Badger Elementary Appleton | 258 | 69.4% | 46.4% |
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 Longfellow Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Eau Claire County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.3% | #743 of 982 | #17 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.8% | #757 of 992 ▼ 26 | #17 of 17 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #737 of 992 ▼ 8 | #17 of 17 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 290 | #646 of 1,157 | #14 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.3:1 | #75 of 901 | #3 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.2% | #94 of 901 | #1 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.8% | #227 of 1,064 | #1 of 18 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.3% | #94 of 240 | #3 of 7 |
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
290
+32 (+12%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 490
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
was 11.7:1
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 | 290 | 28.1 | 10.3:1 | 65% (188) |
| 2023-24 | 264 | 26.4 | 10.0:1 | 70% (185) |
| 2022-23 | 257 | 22.1 | 11.6:1 | 67% (171) |
| 2020-21 | 258 | 22 | 11.7:1 | 72% (186) |
| 2017-18 | 263 | 25.2 | 10.4:1 | 71% (186) |
| 2015-16 | 271 | 26 | 10.4:1 | 74% (201) |
| 2010-11 | 292 | 28 | 10.4:1 | 79% (232) |
| 2000-01 | 337 | 33 | 10.2:1 | 26% (86) |
| 1990-91 | 490 | 27 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Longfellow Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 10% (263 to 290); teachers up 12% (25.2 to 28.1).
About Longfellow Elementary
Longfellow Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school, is located in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The school serves kindergarten through 5. Enrollment is 290 students.
Besides Longfellow Elementary, Eau Claire Area School District runs 22 other schools. The district enrolls 10,687 students.
White students make up 46% of enrollment at Longfellow Elementary, the largest share of any group. The rest of enrollment is 27% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 7% Asian, and 3% Black. Census estimates put the White share of Eau Claire County's population at about 88%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 69%.
Its staff includes 28.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 10.3 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Wisconsin, 14.7:1, is higher. Longfellow Elementary has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 65%. The average for public schools in Eau Claire County is 37%.
On the allk12 Grade, Longfellow Elementary lands at C, ahead of 28% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Longfellow Elementary is 37.9%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 41.3%.
In Eau Claire County, home to about 107,116 people, median household income comes to about $74,546, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. There are 36 public schools in the county, enrolling about 14,002, Longfellow Elementary among them.
Longfellow Elementary's closest public school neighbor is Eau Claire Community Sites, about 0.6 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 5 schools in the immediate area with test results, Longfellow Elementary ranks 5th on average proficiency.
Locale: City: Small. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 290, compared with 258 in 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 11.7:1 to 10.3:1.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Longfellow Elementary schools
36 other US public schools in 18 states are named Longfellow Elementary. Longfellow Elementary is the 26th largest of the 37.
- Longfellow ElementaryMilwaukee, WI · 773 students
- Longfellow ElementarySheboygan, WI · 234 students
- Longfellow ElementaryLong Beach, CA · 904 students
- Longfellow ElementaryBakersfield, CA · 780 students
- Longfellow ElementaryRiverside, CA · 701 students
Nearby schools
- Eau Claire Community Sites0.6 mi · 435
- Eau Claire Virtual School0.6 mi · 147
- Second Avenue School1.0 mi · 16
- Chippewa Valley Montessori Charter School1.1 mi · 301
- Flynn Elementary1.2 mi · 198
- Lakeshore Elementary1.5 mi · 314
Frequently asked questions
About Longfellow ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Longfellow Elementary?
Longfellow Elementary enrolls approximately 290 students in grades KG-05.
Is Longfellow Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Longfellow Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Longfellow Elementary?
Approximately 10.3:1 students per teacher at Longfellow Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Longfellow Elementary?
At Longfellow Elementary, the student body is approximately 46% White, 27% Hispanic, 3% Black, 7% Asian, 14% Two or more.
What district is Longfellow Elementary in?
Longfellow Elementary is part of Eau Claire Area School District.
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