Northwoods Community Elementary

Northwoods Community Elementary is a very small elementary campus in Harshaw, Wisconsin, run under Rhinelander School District. The school works with 97 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Northwoods Community Elementary sits 70% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 6 schools in Rhinelander School District (2,224 students total), Northwoods Community Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Northwoods Community Elementary shows that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.2:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Oneida County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Northwoods Community Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.5%; this one delivers 71.4%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Oneida County) shows that median household earnings sit near $69,371, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Oneida County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,949 students), Northwoods Community Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Crescent Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 11.5 miles from this campus. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Northwoods Community Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 52.5%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Northwoods Community Elementary's enrollment has shrank 8% since 2018, when it stood at 105 (now 97). Hispanic enrollment moved from 7% to 0% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 in 2025.

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