Saint Croix Falls 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 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 56% 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 27 points, placing it in Wisconsin's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Saint Croix Falls Elementary
Saint Croix Falls Elementary is one of the mid-tier elementary campuss in Saint Croix Falls, Wisconsin, overseen by Saint Croix Falls School District, with 303 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.
Across the 4 schools in Saint Croix Falls School District (991 students total), Saint Croix Falls Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Saint Croix Falls Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Beyond that, the school shows 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Polk County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.0:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
After controlling for student poverty, Saint Croix Falls Elementary sits in the top 10% of Wisconsin schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 56.4%; actual is 83.3%, +26.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Polk County put median household earnings sit near $77,219, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Polk County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,126 students), Saint Croix Falls Elementary is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Saint Croix Falls High, roughly 0.2 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Saint Croix Falls Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 56.2%.
Saint Croix Falls Elementary operates from a countryside location.
Looking at the recent track record. Saint Croix Falls Elementary's enrollment has shrank 12% since 2018, when it stood at 345 (now 303). Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.
Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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