Summary:
Elementary schools in the Black River Falls School District are split across two buildings serving a combined 725 students: Red Creek Elementary, which covers grades 2–5 with 436 students, and Forrest Street Elementary School, which serves grades PK–1 with 289 students. Because the elementary grades are divided this way, families experience the early grades and the upper grades at different campuses.
Red Creek is the only one of the two with current state test results, so it is the school to watch for academic performance. It has held a 1-star rating for three recent years, with its state percentile slipping from 26% to 21% in 2025–26. Proficiency is below the state average in every tested subject, with the smallest gap in 4th grade social studies (about 8 points below) and the largest in 5th grade math (about 20 points below). Math and science declined the most year over year. Chronic absenteeism at Red Creek is 21.2% — better than the district's 25.5% but still above the state's 17.3%.
Forrest Street posts no Forward Exam scores because it serves PK–1, so its academic results cannot be compared. Its notable figures are higher chronic absenteeism, 27.3%, and higher per-student spending of $17,751 versus Red Creek's $15,985, despite similar student–teacher ratios (12.7 versus 12.3) and nearly identical free/reduced lunch rates (about 58.8% at both). The district as a whole is rated 404th of 432 in Wisconsin, at the 6th percentile with 0 stars.
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