Northside Elementary

Set in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Northside Elementary is a close-knit elementary school, one of the schools within La Crosse School District. It teaches 237 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 27% below the state mean of about 323.

La Crosse School District comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 5,717 students; Northside Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Northside Elementary lists that 41% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 23% Asian, 19% multiracial, 9% Black, 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of La Crosse County's rate of about 35%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Northside Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.6%; this one delivers 27.1%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for La Crosse County shows median household earnings sit near $73,013, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, La Crosse County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,903 students), of which Northside Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Coulee Montessori Charter School, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Northside Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 38%: 380 students in 2018 compared to 237 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 54% to 41%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 7.3:1 today.

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