Summary:
Zip code 54106, covering the Black Creek area of Outagamie County, has just one public elementary school — Black Creek Elementary — which serves 345 students in grades PK–8 and belongs to the Seymour Community School District. Because it is the only school in the ZIP code, there is no local school-to-school comparison; the most useful benchmarks are how it performs against its district and against the state. The district itself ranks 293rd of 432 in Wisconsin, at the 32nd percentile with 2 stars, while the school sits slightly higher at the 40th percentile.
Academically, the school shows pockets of real strength alongside clear gaps. In 2025–2026, 6th grade ELA reached 82.35% proficient, far above the district's 65.32% and the state's 54.95%, and 5th grade ELA (68.57%) and Math (57.14%) were also above both benchmarks. On the other hand, 4th grade Math came in at 19.35%, 8th grade ELA at 31.58%, and 8th grade Science at 34.21%, all well below district and state. Averaged across all listed tests, the school's 2025–2026 results (47.19%) trailed the district (53.38%) and state (55.13%), a drop from 2024–2025, when the school's average (52.03%) was slightly above the district. Much of that swing comes from small grade-level cohorts shifting year to year — for example, 4th grade was strong across subjects in 2024–2025 and weak in 2025–2026 — so single-year results should be read with caution.
Operationally, the school looks solid. Chronic absenteeism was 12.9% in 2024–2025, compared with 17.3% for both the district and the state, and the dropout rate was 0.0%. About 34.78% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending is $16,186, and the student-teacher ratio is 13.7. Statewide, the school has held steady at roughly 620th–624th of about 1,040 schools, in the 40th–41st percentile with 2 stars for three straight years — consistent, modest, and above its district but below the state midpoint.
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