Summary:
Elementary schools in the Manawa School District consist of a single school: Manawa Elementary, which serves grades PK–5 and enrolls 221 students at 800 Beech St in Manawa, Wisconsin. Because it is the district’s only elementary school, its results and the district’s elementary results are identical. The district overall is ranked 359 of 432, in the 17th percentile, with 1 star.
Manawa Elementary has real strengths. Its chronic absenteeism rate was just 3.6% in 2024–25, well below the district rate of 10.3% and the state rate of 17.3%, indicating strong attendance. It is a small school with a favorable 12.7:1 student-teacher ratio and per-student spending of $16,926, and 52.04% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. In 2024–25 its results were competitive: third-grade ELA and math, fourth-grade math, and fourth-grade science were all above state averages, and grade-level averages for ELA (51.23) and math (53.93) were close to state.
The concern is a sharp slide in 2025–26. The school’s rank fell to 783 of 1039, the 25th percentile, dropping from 2 stars to 1 star after two years in the mid-40s percentile (565 of 1061 in 2023–24 and 563 of 1044 in 2024–25). Every reported subject and grade fell below the state average that year. The biggest declines were third-grade ELA (59.09 to 30.30), third-grade math (59.09 to 34.38), and fourth-grade math (56.76 to 30.43). Science slipped from above state to below it, and grade averages dropped to 43.75 in ELA and 36.19 in math. Fifth-grade ELA was the lone bright spot, improving from 45.95 to 53.13 and finishing just 0.50 points below the state average of 53.63.
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