Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 54615

Zip code 54615 covers Black River Falls, Wisconsin, where two elementary schools serve a combined 725 students in the Black River Falls School District: Red Creek Elementary (grades 2–5, 436 students) and Forrest Street Elementary School (grades PK–1, 289 students). Together they cover the full elementary span, with Forrest Street feeding into Red Creek. Both operate in a district ranked 404th of 432 in Wisconsin, at the 6th percentile with 0 stars.

Academically, only Red Creek Elementary has current state test results, because Forrest Street Elementary School serves PK–1. Red Creek is below the state in every listed Forward Exam subject and grade in both 2024–25 and 2025–26. Mathematics is the biggest concern: proficiency averaged 35.48% in 2025–26 against the state's 53.14%, and 5th-grade math was 31.75% versus the state's 51.81%. Math fell about 7.9 points from the prior year. ELA improved slightly to a 39.26% average, still about 14 points below the state, while 4th-grade science dropped 5.58 points. Red Creek's 2025–26 school rank was 816th of 1,039, at the 21st percentile with 1 star; Forrest Street's only rank entry is from 2004–05.

Attendance and resources differ between the two schools. Chronic absenteeism is 27.3% at Forrest Street Elementary School and 21.2% at Red Creek Elementary — both above the district's 25.5% and the state's 17.3%. Forrest Street spends $17,751 per student, about $1,766 more than Red Creek's $15,985, and has a slightly higher student-teacher ratio of 12.7 versus 12.3. Free/reduced lunch rates are nearly identical at 58.94% and 58.48%, so the two schools serve economically similar populations despite the differences in spending and attendance. Neither school stands out as high-performing on the measures in this data.