Summary:
Tomahawk, Wisconsin is home to exactly one public elementary school — Tomahawk Elementary, which serves students in grades PK–5 with an enrollment of 512 and belongs to the Tomahawk School District. Because it is the only elementary school in the city, it represents the entire local picture for elementary education, and its results are essentially the district's elementary results — school and district proficiency figures match in nearly every tested grade.
Attendance is the school's clearest strength. Chronic absenteeism in 2024–2025 was 3.2%, well below the district's 5.0% and far below Wisconsin's 17.3% — a notable result given that 53.12% of students are economically disadvantaged based on free/reduced lunch eligibility. The school also spends $16,280 per student and has a student-teacher ratio of 11.9:1. Upper-grade results were strong: in 2025–2026, grade 5 ELA proficiency was 68.85% and grade 5 math was 67.21%, both well above the state averages of 53.63% and 51.81%.
Other results are more mixed. The school's state rank fell to 657 of 1,039 in 2025–2026 (37th percentile, 2 stars), down from 462 of 1,044 (56th percentile, 3 stars) the prior year. Grade 3 ELA (36.36%) and math (43.42%) fell below state, as did grade 4 science (41.89%) and social studies (55.41%). Grade 4 math dropped from 68.18% to 43.24% year over year, though those are different student cohorts — that group actually improved from 39.19% as third graders. Parents should look at grade-level trends over time rather than single-year comparisons.
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