Woodland Elementary

As a moderately sized elementary campus in Barron, Wisconsin, Woodland Elementary teaches 324 students from grades pre-K through 4, run under Barron Area School District.

Barron Area School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 1,073 students. Woodland Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Woodland Elementary reports that White students make up the majority at 58%. Other groups include 19% Black, 16% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Barron County as a whole is about 92% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Woodland Elementary lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 65% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Barron County's rate of about 41%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Woodland Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.9%; this one delivers 45.4%.

In the surrounding community, Barron County reports that median household income runs about $65,933, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Barron County runs 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,199 students), of which Woodland Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Advanced Learning Academy of Wisconsin, around 0.1 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Woodland Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 54.5%.

Woodland Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Woodland Elementary has edged up 4%, going from 313 students in 2018 to 324 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 24% to 19% across the same window.

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