Wonewoc-Center Elementary
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Wonewoc-Center Elementary
Set in Wonewoc, Wisconsin, Wonewoc-Center Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary-level community, one of the schools within Wonewoc-Union Center School District. It caters to 175 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Wonewoc-Center Elementary sits 46% smaller than that benchmark.
Within Wonewoc-Union Center School District, which oversees 4 schools and 362 students, Wonewoc-Center Elementary is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, Wonewoc-Center Elementary logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Juneau County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Wonewoc-Center Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.5%; this one delivers 53.0%.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Juneau County) reports that median household income runs about $67,270, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Juneau County's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,471 students), Wonewoc-Center Elementary is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Wonewoc-Center Virtual Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Wonewoc-Center Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.5%.
Wonewoc-Center Elementary operates from a low-density location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 14%: 153 students in 2018 compared to 175 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.
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- Wonewoc-Center HighHigh · 114 students
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