Summary
School of Technology and Arts I is a small public elementary school in La Crosse, WI, serving grades K–5 with 104 students as part of the La Crosse School District. It ranks 188 of 1,039 Wisconsin elementary schools in 2025–2026 (82nd percentile, 4 stars) — far above its district, which sits at 294 of 432 (32nd percentile, 2 stars). The school has also improved markedly over time, from the 45th percentile with 2 stars in 2018–2019 to the 90th–95th percentile with 4–5 stars in 2022–2023 and 2023–2024, remaining strong at 75th percentile in 2024–2025 and 82nd in 2025–2026.
English Language Arts, social studies, and science are clear strengths. In 2025–2026, ELA proficiency was 89.47% in 3rd grade, 76.47% in 4th, and 81.25% in 5th — all above district and state. Social studies was 88.24% and science 70.59% (both 4th grade). Math is more mixed: 3rd grade was strong at 73.68%, but 4th was 52.94% and 5th 43.75%, below the state's 51.81%. The school ranks 2 of 989 statewide for male students (100th percentile) and 72 of 848 for low-socioeconomic students (92nd percentile), while female-student effectiveness was 58th percentile, down from 88th in 2023–2024. Chronic absenteeism was 15.1%, below the district's 19.6% and the state's 17.3%, but higher than several nearby schools and up from 1.8% in 2020–2021.
Among nearby district schools, it holds the top rank, ahead of Spence Elementary (75th percentile), Emerson Elementary (66th), State Road Elementary (64th), and others down to Hintgen Elementary (11th). It achieves this spending $15,322 per student — less than most nearby schools — and with the highest student-teacher ratio of the group at 15.6. Its free/reduced-lunch rate of 23.08% is the lowest nearby. Notably, Hamilton Elementary School, at the same address, has 80.13% free/reduced lunch, 30.6% absenteeism, a 13th-percentile rank, and 1 star.
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