Summary:
ZIP code 54654 is served by a single elementary school: Seneca Elementary, a PK–5 building at 202 Main St in Seneca, WI, with 109 students, and it is the only tested elementary school in the Seneca Area School District. Because the school's and district's test results are identical in every row of the data, the district picture is the school picture — there is no second building to compare against. Roughly half of students (50.46%) are economically disadvantaged, per-student spending is $17,196, and the student–teacher ratio is 11.6 to 1, which works out to about 9–10 teachers.
The school's strengths are clear. Averaged across all tested grade-subject results, Seneca Elementary reached about 64% proficient in both years measured, roughly 9–10 points above the state average. Science is the standout, at 81.82% and 75.0% proficient against state rates near 51–53%. Math improved sharply: third-grade math rose from 53.85% to 84.62% and fifth-grade math from 50.00% to 66.67%, moving from a soft spot to a strength in one year. Attendance is the most striking metric of all — 5.1% chronic absenteeism versus 12.1% district-wide and 17.3% statewide, about one-third the state rate. The school's state ranking also climbed each year, from 407th to 342nd of roughly 1,040 schools, holding a 3-star rating.
Parents should read these numbers cohort by cohort, not year to year. With classes of roughly 11–13 tested students, one or two children crossing a proficiency line can move a percentage by 8–12 points. Social studies, for example, went from 100% to 66.67%, and fifth-grade ELA slipped to 33.33% while the same group of students improved in math. Those swings are best treated as signals to ask about — how the school supports a given cohort — rather than as settled trends. The bottom line: a small, well-attended, well-resourced school that outperforms Wisconsin overall and dramatically in science.
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