Summary:
ZIP code 54810 (Balsam Lake, Wisconsin) has just one listed elementary school, Unity Elementary, which serves grades PK–4 with 385 students as part of Unity School District. Because it is the only elementary school in the ZIP, there is no local peer school to compare it against, so the useful comparison is between its own results and state averages. About 53.25% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending is $12,867, and the student-teacher ratio is 12.7, all figures for 2024–2025.
Test results are unusually uneven depending on grade and subject. Third grade ELA is the brightest spot: 74.55% proficient in 2025–2026, 22.47 points above the state and up 17.02 points from the prior year. Third grade math (58.18%) and fourth grade social studies (68.49%) also beat state averages, and social studies has now been above state two years running. Fourth grade is weaker across the board. Fourth grade ELA fell to 42.47%, which is 11.40 points below the state and down 12.32 points from a year earlier when it was above state. Fourth grade math (46.58%) was below state for the second straight year, and science slipped to 49.32%, below the state after being slightly above it the prior year.
One clear strength is attendance: chronic absenteeism is 9.9%, roughly half the district rate of 18.6% and well below the state's 17.3%. School rankings tell a different story than raw scores, placing Unity mid-pack at 46th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026, down from 49th the year before but up from 40th in 2023–2024. Averaged across all six reported tests, Unity sits slightly above state (+1.18 points), but that hides large grade-level gaps. Note that test data cover only grades 3 and 4, and small cohorts make year-to-year changes volatile.
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