Royall 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 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 22 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 47% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Wisconsin's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Royall Elementary
Set in Elroy, Wisconsin, Royall Elementary is a close-knit elementary school, overseen by Royall School District. It instructs 155 students across grades pre-K through 3. That puts it 52% smaller than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.
Royall School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 455 students; Royall Elementary is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Royall Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Beyond that, the school reports 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Juneau County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Royall Elementary has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Royall Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 50% 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 above Juneau County's rate of about 41%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Royall 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 46.8%; Royall Elementary posts 60.8%, +14.0 points above that line.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Juneau County indicate median household income runs about $67,270, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Juneau County's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,471 students), Royall Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Royall Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Royall Elementary comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.4%.
The school occupies a rural site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Royall Elementary has contracted 18%, going from 188 students in 2018 to 155 in 2025.
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