Northside Elementary
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 53% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Wisconsin's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Northside Elementary
Set in Monroe, Wisconsin, Northside Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack primary school, one of the schools within Monroe School District. It works with 362 students across grades pre-K through 5.
Monroe School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,140 students; Northside Elementary is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Northside Elementary logs that nearly all students (85%) are White. The remainder reads as 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 93% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
With demographic context factored in, Northside Elementary sits in the top 10% of Wisconsin schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 53.1%; actual is 68.4%, +15.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Green County) reports that median household earnings sit near $82,852, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Northside Elementary is one of 20 public schools in Green County (combined enrollment of about 5,278 students).
The closest other public school is Monroe Middle, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Northside Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 50.0%.
The school occupies a town-center site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Northside Elementary has showed little movement, going from 365 students in 2018 to 362 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 4% to 10% across the same window.
Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Northside Elementary community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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