Stillson Elementary

Stillson Elementary is an elementary campus of mid-sized scale in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, operated by Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District, serveing 338 students in grades K through 5.

Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,574 students. Stillson Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Stillson Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest comes out to 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Chippewa County's rate of about 38%.

After controlling for student poverty, Stillson 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 61.7%; Stillson Elementary posts 75.3%, +13.6 points above that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Chippewa County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,680 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Chippewa County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,353 students), Stillson Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Northern Wisconsin Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Stillson Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 54.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Stillson Elementary has shrank 12%, going from 386 students in 2018 to 338 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.