Summary:
Elementary schools in the Birchwood School District number two — Birchwood Elementary (PK–5, 86 students) and Birchwood Public Montessori (PK–6, 25 students) — enrolling 111 students combined in a district rated 270 of 432 in Wisconsin, or 38th percentile, with 2 stars.
Comparing the two, Birchwood Public Montessori is the higher-ranked school in the most recent comparable year, at 630 of 1,044 — 40th percentile, 2 stars — in 2024–2025, and it holds the only 4-star result in this data: 271 of 1,067, 75th percentile, in 2021–2022, before falling back to 40th percentile. Birchwood Elementary remains a 1-star school at 760 of 1,039, 27th percentile in 2025–2026, though its rank is climbing steadily, from 860 to 792 to 760 (19th to 24th to 27th percentile).
Academically, math is the clearest weakness: no reported math score at either school in either year reached the state average, the best being Birchwood Elementary's 4th grade math at 36.36% versus the state's 52.87%, while Birchwood Public Montessori's 5th grade math at 12.5% was the lowest reported. Science is a relative strength — Montessori's 4th grade science reached 77.78% against the state's 50.83% in 2024–2025, and Birchwood Elementary exceeded the state in 4th grade science both years. ELA is mixed with strong pockets: Birchwood Elementary's 4th grade ELA at 54.55% and Montessori's 5th grade ELA at 62.5% each beat district and state. Chronic absenteeism runs above the state's 17.3% at both schools (17.7% and 19.0%), and per-student spending is nearly identical ($24,740 versus $24,843) despite Montessori's lower student-teacher ratio of 6.4 versus 7.8. Montessori's small enrollment means its percentages rest on very small cohorts and can swing widely.
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