Northwoods Elementary

As an average-sized elementary campus in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Northwoods Elementary enrolls 304 students from grades K through 5, part of Eau Claire Area School District.

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

Looking at the student body, Northwoods Elementary reports that 73% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 12% multiracial, 7% Asian, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Eau Claire County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Northwoods Elementary logs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Eau Claire County (around 37%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Northwoods Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 45.8%; Northwoods Elementary posts 62.5%, +16.8 points above that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Eau Claire County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $74,546 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Northwoods Elementary is one of 36 public schools in Eau Claire County (combined enrollment of about 14,002 students).

Nearest neighbor: McKinley Charter School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Northwoods Elementary. On composite proficiency, Northwoods Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.4%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Northwoods Elementary has declined 23%, going from 393 students in 2018 to 304 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 79% to 73% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.