Summary:
The Southwestern Wisconsin School District has only one elementary school, Southwestern Wisconsin Elementary, which serves grades PK-5 with a total enrollment of 263 students. The school is a public institution and is ranked 216 out of 426 school districts in Wisconsin, with a 2-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Southwestern Wisconsin Elementary generally performs better than the state average on the Forward Exam in both English Language Arts and Mathematics across grades 3-5. In 2024-2025, the school had 68.75% of 3rd graders, 46.67% of 4th graders, and 53.06% of 5th graders proficient or better in ELA, compared to the state averages of 52.14%, 52.21%, and 51.26%, respectively. In the same year, the school had 84.38% of 3rd graders, 51.11% of 4th graders, and 67.35% of 5th graders proficient or better in Mathematics, compared to the state averages of 55%, 53.96%, and 52.58%, respectively. The school's performance in Social Studies and Science for 4th grade is also above the state average.
Despite the school's academic success, it faces some socioeconomic challenges, with a relatively high proportion of students from low-income families (30.42% free and reduced-price lunch rate) and a higher-than-average chronic absenteeism rate (17.7% in 2023-2024). However, the school's per-student spending for the 2020-2021 school year was $13,361, which is higher than the state average, and it has a student-teacher ratio of 10.5, which is lower than the state average, suggesting smaller class sizes.
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