Summary:
Elementary schools in Seneca, Wisconsin — a small rural community in Crawford County — consist of a single school: Seneca Elementary, which serves pre-kindergarten through 5th grade with 109 students and is part of the Seneca Area School District. Because there is only one elementary school here, families have one option, and it stacks up well against the state: Seneca Elementary ranked 342nd of 1,039 Wisconsin schools in 2025–26, placing it in the top third statewide with a 3-star rating it has held for three straight years. Its state ranking has climbed each year on record, from 407th to 386th to 342nd.
Attendance and academics are the school's strongest points. Chronic absenteeism is just 5.1%, far below both the Seneca Area School District rate of 12.1% and the statewide 17.3%. On the 2025–26 Forward Exam, students beat the state average in six of eight grade-level subject tests. Math is the standout subject, averaging about 67% proficient versus 53% statewide, with 3rd-grade math at 84.62% against 54.75% for the state — and it has improved markedly from the prior year, when math trailed the state. Science is also consistently strong, at 75.00% versus about 53% statewide, while English language arts and social studies sit modestly above the state average.
The one clear soft spot is 5th-grade English language arts, where 33.33% of students were proficient — below the state's 53.63% and a 22-point drop from the year before. Families should note that each grade here has only about a dozen students, so a single student can shift a grade-level score by 7–9 points, and year-to-year swings of 20 to 33 points are largely small-sample noise rather than reliable signals. About 50.46% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, spending runs $17,196 per student, and classes are small at 11.6 students per teacher. Overall, this is a small, well-funded school performing above the Wisconsin average.
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