Willow River Elementary

Located at 1118 4th St, in Hudson, Wisconsin, Willow River Elementary is a mid-sized elementary campus that caters to 278 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Hudson School District.

Across the 10 schools in Hudson School District (5,119 students total), Willow River Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Willow River Elementary logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Willow River Elementary lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Roughly 13% of students at Willow River Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than St. Croix County's rate of about 22%.

With demographic context factored in, Willow River Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 69.7%; this one delivers 72.0%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (St. Croix County) reports that median household earnings sit near $103,046, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Willow River Elementary is one of 31 public schools in St. Croix County (combined enrollment of about 14,266 students).

Hudson 4K is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Willow River Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Willow River Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 64.8%.

Willow River Elementary operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Willow River Elementary's enrollment has shrank 15% since 2018, when it stood at 327 (now 278). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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