Summary:
The three elementary schools in Freeman School District 33-1 serve grades PK–8, with enrollment ranging from 34 to 192 students. In 2025–2026, their unweighted average was 54% in ELA, compared with 49% statewide, while their math average was 43%, just below the state’s 44%. The most important takeaway is that strengths differ by subject: Wolf Creek Colony Elementary - 04 led in ELA, while Tschetter Colony Elementary - 03 led in math.
Wolf Creek stood out in ELA with 64%, 15 points above the state and 16 points higher than Freeman Elementary - 02, which had the lowest result at 48%. Tschetter led math at 48%, 5 points above the state. Freeman and Wolf Creek were close behind at 40.8% and 40.9%, respectively—both about 3 points below the state. Freeman’s sixth-grade results were a notable exception to its lower overall results: it scored 60% in ELA and 52% in math, both above state results for that grade.
Results shifted differently at each school between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026: Freeman fell 5 points in ELA and 4 in math; Tschetter fell 6 in ELA but rose 2 in math; and Wolf Creek rose 4 in ELA and 6 in math. The reported student-teacher ratios were 11.7 at Freeman, 21.7 at Tschetter, and 12.5 at Wolf Creek, with no consistent match between ratio and subject results. Reported low-income measures also come from different years: Freeman was 33% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, while Tschetter and Wolf Creek were 7% and 9% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2022–2023. All three schools had lower chronic absenteeism than the state in 2025–2026: 8% at Freeman, 0% at Tschetter, and 6% at Wolf Creek, versus 20% statewide. Science does not allow a current all-school comparison because the colony schools’ latest results were suppressed; Freeman’s reported fifth-grade result was 54%, 12 points above the state.
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