Summary:
Hollandale, Wisconsin is home to one public school: Pecatonica Elementary, an elementary school serving grades PK–5 with 171 students in the Pecatonica Area School District. There are no middle, high, or alternative schools in the city, so families here move on to other schools after 5th grade. The district is ranked 104 of 432 statewide (76th percentile, 4 stars), while the school's latest rank is 509 of 1039 (51st percentile, 3 stars) — up from the 43rd percentile and 2 stars in 2024–2025, the strongest of the three reported years.
Academically, the school is trending upward. Its simple average proficiency across the eight reported subject and grade cells rose from 52.1% in 2024–2025 to 57.8% in 2025–2026, moving from about 1.9 points below the comparable state average to about 3.1 points above it. It exceeded the state in 5 of 8 test cells in 2025–2026, up from 2 of 8 the year before. Third grade is the clearest bright spot: ELA proficiency was 80.77% and math 73.08%, both far above state levels. Fifth grade also turned around, with ELA and math both reaching 56.00%. The biggest concern is 4th grade math, at 29.03% proficient — 23.84 points below the state and down 15.80 points from the prior year. Fourth grade Social Studies was also below state in both years (61.29% versus 65.51%).
The school's context is favorable in several ways. Chronic absenteeism is 14.6%, below the district's 15.0% and the state's 17.3%. Free or reduced-price lunch stands at 36.84%. Per-student spending is high at $19,973, and the student-teacher ratio is low at 9:1. With only 171 students, grade-level percentages come from small groups, so year-to-year swings can be large, and changes in which students make up each grade help explain them.
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