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Parkview 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 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Parkview Elementary
As a reasonably sized primary school in Orfordville, Wisconsin, Parkview Elementary teaches 428 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by Parkview School District. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 33% larger than typical.
Across the 4 schools in Parkview School District (837 students total), Parkview Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Parkview Elementary records that nearly all students (94%) are White. Other groups include 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.
In terms of school funding signals, Parkview Elementary reports 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Parkview Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Rock County's rate of about 47%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Parkview Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.8%.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Rock County) logs that median household earnings sit near $75,673, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Rock County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,542 students), of which Parkview Elementary is one.
Parkview Academy of Virtual Education is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Parkview Elementary comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Parkview Elementary has grew 4%, going from 412 students in 2018 to 428 in 2025.
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Related schools
- Parkview HighHigh · 187 students
- Parkview Junior HighMiddle · 171 students
- Parkview Academy of Virtual EducationHigh · 51 students
- Parkview HighHigh · 187 students
- Parkview Junior HighMiddle · 171 students
- Parkview Academy of Virtual EducationHigh · 51 students
- Parkview Academy of Virtual Education0.2 mi · 51
- Parkview Junior High0.2 mi · 171
- Parkview High0.2 mi · 187
- Ronald R Albrecht Elementary6.6 mi · 460
- Brodhead High6.7 mi · 313
- Brodhead Middle6.8 mi · 202