Rosholt 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 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 Rosholt Elementary
Rosholt Elementary is one of the small elementary schools in Rosholt, Wisconsin, part of Rosholt School District, with 259 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6.
Within Rosholt School District, which oversees 3 schools and 481 students, Rosholt Elementary is one campus in the system.
On demographics, Rosholt Elementary records that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 6% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Portage County as a whole.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Rosholt Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rosholt Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.1%, the actual is 51.9%, a residual of -8.2 points.
In the area at large, Portage County reports that median household income runs about $76,070, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Rosholt Elementary is one of 31 public schools in Portage County (combined enrollment of about 9,217 students).
Nearest neighbor: Rosholt High, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rosholt Elementary at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 56.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 5%: 246 students in 2018 compared to 259 in 2025.
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