Willow Glen Primary School
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 63 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 25 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 50% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Wisconsin's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Willow Glen Primary School
As a small elementary-level community in Saint Francis, Wisconsin, Willow Glen Primary School enrolls 263 students from grades pre-K through 3, one of the schools within Saint Francis School District.
Willow Glen Primary School is one of 3 schools operated by Saint Francis School District, a district that enrolls 1,106 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Willow Glen Primary School logs that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 35% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Roughly 46% of students at Willow Glen Primary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Milwaukee County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Willow Glen Primary School sits in the top 10% of Wisconsin schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 49.6%; actual is 64.3%, +14.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Milwaukee County indicate the typical household earns roughly $64,435 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), Willow Glen Primary School is one campus in the mix.
Deer Creek Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Willow Glen Primary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Willow Glen Primary School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 46.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Willow Glen Primary School has rose 4%, going from 252 students in 2018 to 263 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 21% to 35%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.
Inside the community feed, the feed for Willow Glen Primary School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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