Putnam Heights Elementary

Located at 633 W MacArthur Ave, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Putnam Heights Elementary is an average-sized elementary school that serves 422 students (grades K through 5), run under Eau Claire Area School District. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Putnam Heights Elementary sits 31% above that benchmark.

Within Eau Claire Area School District, which oversees 23 schools and 10,687 students, Putnam Heights Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Putnam Heights Elementary reports that the largest single group is White, at 80% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 8% Asian, 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Eau Claire County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Putnam Heights Elementary has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Roughly 39% of students at Putnam Heights Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Putnam Heights Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.5%, the actual is 55.9%, a residual of +2.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Eau Claire County) shows that median household income runs about $74,546, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Eau Claire County's 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,002 students), Putnam Heights Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Manz Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Putnam Heights Elementary. On composite proficiency, Putnam Heights Elementary comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 422 students in 2018 compared to 422 in 2025. The White share of enrollment expanded from 75% to 80% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.