State Road Elementary

Set in La Crosse, Wisconsin, State Road Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary school, overseen by La Crosse School District. It enrolls 284 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Within La Crosse School District, which oversees 19 schools and 5,717 students, State Road Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, State Road Elementary shows that White students make up the majority at 78%. Beyond that, the school logs 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Roughly 38% of students at State Road Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, State Road Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.3%, the actual is 52.2%, a residual of -2.1 points.

In the surrounding community, La Crosse County reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,013 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across La Crosse County's 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,903 students), State Road Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Central High, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, State Road Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at State Road Elementary has declined 10%, going from 315 students in 2018 to 284 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share ticked down from 7% to 2%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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