Stetsonville Elementary

As a low-enrollment elementary-level community in Stetsonville, Wisconsin, Stetsonville Elementary serves 203 students from grades pre-K through 4, operated by Medford Area Public School District. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Stetsonville Elementary sits 37% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Medford Area Public School District, which oversees 5 schools and 4,282 students, Stetsonville Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Stetsonville Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%); the rest comes out to 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Stetsonville Elementary has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Taylor County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Stetsonville Elementary sits in the top 10% of Wisconsin schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 45.6%; actual is 67.9%, +22.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Taylor County put median household earnings sit near $69,350, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Stetsonville Elementary is one of 11 public schools in Taylor County (combined enrollment of about 5,123 students).

Rural Virtual Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.6 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Stetsonville Elementary comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 36.4%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Stetsonville Elementary's enrollment has fell 7% since 2018, when it stood at 218 (now 203). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.