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Enrollment
439
Elementary
DISTRICT 380 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WHITEHALL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 551665002175
Whitehall Memorial Elementary
19121 Hobson St, Whitehall, WI 54773 · (715) 538-4364 · Trempealeau County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL439 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 35% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
222 students
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 42%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 50 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 58 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 53 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 55 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 5% larger than its 6th grade class (55).
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 38% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Whitehall Memorial Elementary→Whitehall Memorial Junior/Senior High
Based on grade levels within Whitehall School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
40.9%
WI avg 53.1% . -6.4pp since 2023
Math
50.2%
WI avg 54.8% . -3.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.9% | 50.2% |
| 2023-24 | 47.3% | 53.7% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
49.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.6%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Whitehall Memorial Elementary
Whitehall Memorial Elementary's state test result (49.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitehall Memorial Elementary this school | 439 | 50.6% | 49.5% |
| Lincoln Elementary Hartford | 460 | 48.7% | 60.0% |
| Webster Elementary Watertown | 381 | 52.5% | 64.9% |
| Prairie Ridge Intermediate Reedsburg | 505 | 49.7% | 54.4% |
| Parkside Elementary Monroe | 342 | 50.0% | 57.4% |
| Monroe Elementary Janesville | 376 | 52.4% | 71.0% |
Matched among Wisconsin elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Whitehall Memorial Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Trempealeau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.5% | #629 of 982 | #7 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.2% | #584 of 992 ▼ 13 | #5 of 9 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.9% | #724 of 992 ▼ 81 | #7 of 9 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 439 | #261 of 1,157 | #2 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #433 of 901 | #5 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.1% | #428 of 901 | #1 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.6% | #404 of 1,064 | #3 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.2% | #240 of 240 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
439
+31 (+8%) vs 2020
+50% since 1990-91, when it was 293
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 13.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 439 | 33.6 | 13.1:1 | 51% (222) |
| 2023-24 | 437 | 32.7 | 13.4:1 | 54% (237) |
| 2022-23 | 435 | 31.6 | 13.8:1 | 52% (226) |
| 2020-21 | 408 | 30 | 13.6:1 | 53% (215) |
| 2017-18 | 438 | 30.3 | 14.4:1 | 47% (206) |
| 2015-16 | 439 | 33 | 13.3:1 | 48% (212) |
| 2010-11 | 255 | 20 | 12.8:1 | 53% (135) |
| 2000-01 | 258 | 18 | 14.3:1 | 21% (54) |
| 1990-91 | 293 | 19 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Whitehall Memorial Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (438 to 439); teachers up 11% (30.3 to 33.6).
About Whitehall Memorial Elementary
Whitehall Memorial Elementary operates as a mid-sized elementary school in Whitehall, Wisconsin. It is open to students in pre-K through 6 and enrolls 439 students. It has 36% more students than the average for elementary schools in Wisconsin (about 323).
Whitehall Memorial Elementary is part of Whitehall School District, where 2 schools serve 760 students.
About 74% of the student body at Whitehall Memorial Elementary is White. Other groups make up 22% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. County-wide, 85% of Trempealeau County residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 41%.
With 33.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 13.1:1. Elementary schools in Wisconsin have an average ratio of 14.7:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Whitehall Memorial Elementary, 51% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Whitehall Memorial Elementary earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 35% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
Whitehall Memorial Elementary posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 49.5%, compared with a predicted 46.6%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Wisconsin schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Trempealeau County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $76,313, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 21%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. The county has 21 public schools and about 5,893 students.
Less than a tenth of a mile separates Whitehall Memorial Elementary from the closest public school, Whitehall Memorial Junior/Senior High. The five-mile area around Whitehall Memorial Elementary holds 4 other public schools. Local comparison: Whitehall Memorial Elementary ranks 4th of 9 nearby schools, at 49.5% versus a 44.8% average.
NCES describes the area around Whitehall Memorial Elementary as Rural: Remote, meaning in rural territory far from an urban area.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose 8%.
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Trempealeau County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
30,839
Census ACS
Median income
$76,313
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
21
5,893 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Whitehall School District
- Whitehall Memorial Junior/Senior HighHigh · 321 students
Other schools in Whitehall
- Whitehall Memorial Junior/Senior HighHigh · 321 students
Nearby schools
- Whitehall Memorial Junior/Senior High0.0 mi · 321
- Independence Elementary4.5 mi · 182
- Independence High4.5 mi · 142
- Independence Middle4.5 mi · 101
- Blair-Taylor Middle/High7.9 mi · 295
- Blair-Taylor Elementary7.9 mi · 306
Frequently asked questions
About Whitehall Memorial ElementaryHow many students attend Whitehall Memorial Elementary?
Whitehall Memorial Elementary enrolls approximately 439 students in grades PK-06.
Is Whitehall Memorial Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Whitehall Memorial Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many students per teacher at Whitehall Memorial Elementary?
Approximately 13.1:1 students per teacher at Whitehall Memorial Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Whitehall Memorial Elementary?
Student demographics at Whitehall Memorial Elementary are roughly 74% White, 22% Hispanic, 3% Two or more.
What district is Whitehall Memorial Elementary in?
Whitehall Memorial Elementary is part of Whitehall School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.