Southview Elementary

Southview Elementary, a moderately sized primary school in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District, teaches 286 students, covering grades K through 5.

Across the 9 schools in Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District (4,574 students total), Southview Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Southview Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). The remainder consists of 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Southview Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 44% 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, Southview Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.4%; this one delivers 56.2%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Chippewa County) logs that median household income runs about $74,680, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Chippewa County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,353 students), of which Southview Elementary is one.

Halmstad Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Southview Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Southview Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 57.6%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Southview Elementary has edged down 20%, going from 358 students in 2018 to 286 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 93% to 86% over that span.

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