Summary:
ZIP code 54406 in Amherst, Wisconsin is home to a single elementary school: Amherst Elementary, located at 357 N Main St. It serves grades PK–4 with 342 students as part of the Tomorrow River School District, which ranks 202 of 432 Wisconsin districts — the 53rd percentile. Because the Forward Exam begins in third grade, only grades 3 and 4 appear in achievement data, so a large share of the building's students is not reflected in test scores at all.
Amherst Elementary scores above both its district and the state of Wisconsin in all six tested subject-and-grade combinations for 2025-2026: third- and fourth-grade ELA and math, fourth-grade social studies, and fourth-grade science. Its strongest margins are fourth-grade math, about 7 points above state, and fourth-grade science at 69.09% proficient versus 53.46% statewide. Attendance is the standout strength: chronic absenteeism is 4.6%, less than half the district's 9.3% and roughly a quarter of the state's 17.3% — about 1 in 22 students here versus 1 in 6 statewide. That holds despite 26.61% of students qualifying for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending of $12,772, and a 14.5:1 student-teacher ratio.
The caution is trajectory. Every tested measure declined from 2024-25 to 2025-26, averaging an 11-point drop, and the school's ranking slipped from the 86th to the 61st percentile, with stars easing from 4 to 3. Importantly, the district fell by nearly the same amount (11.29 points) while the state held flat — so the school kept its edge over its own district but lost the wide cushion it once held over the state. Fourth-grade ELA is now effectively at parity with state. Note also that the test scores are a year newer than the attendance, poverty, and staffing figures.
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