Greenfield Elementary, Baldwin WI

Original Research by School Decision on Greenfield Elementary

Greenfield Elementary serves students from four-year-old kindergarten through fifth grade in the Baldwin-Woodville Area School District. It is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet, and sits within the village of Baldwin in western Wisconsin, roughly an hour east of the Twin Cities. The school shares its district with Viking Middle School in nearby Woodville and Baldwin-Woodville Area High School, also in Baldwin.

The student body is predominantly white, with a share of Hispanic students and a very small number of students from other racial backgrounds. About a quarter of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing the school in a moderate range for economic need. Enrollment is spread fairly evenly across grades, with the largest single cohort in third grade. The school has a substantial total enrollment for an elementary school serving these grades.

On state assessments, Greenfield Elementary shows a pattern of solid performance with some variation by grade and subject. In math, proficiency rates are highest in third grade and decrease slightly in fourth and fifth grades. English language arts follows a similar arc, with third graders posting the strongest results and fifth graders the weakest, although still roughly half of students in that grade score at or above the proficient level. Science, tested only in fourth grade, lands in a range similar to the school’s math and ELA results for that grade. Social studies, also tested in fourth grade, shows a notably higher proficiency rate, the strongest single subject result for the school. Participation rates on all assessments are very high, which means the results give a reliable picture of student performance.

When measured across all tested subjects and grades, Greenfield Elementary’s overall proficiency index falls in the bottom quarter among the six public school districts in St. Croix County. This does not mean the school is weak in an absolute sense, but it does mean that several nearby districts have higher composite proficiency rates. Families moving into the area or comparing elementary options may want to look into how the school’s results align with their academic expectations.

Baldwin itself is a small village that has grown steadily over the past two decades, shifting from a quiet agricultural stop to a community that draws residents who commute to the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area. Housing values have risen noticeably, and the village is oriented around its highway corridor rather than a compact walkable downtown. The school is integrated into the village, not isolated on a separate campus.

The district brief turned up no major recent changes in programs, leadership, or facilities that would affect a family’s decision. For a family weighing this school, the core picture is an elementary school with strong participation on state tests, a performance profile that sits modestly below the top of its county, a student body that is largely white and economically mixed, and a community that has been growing and becoming more expensive.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 368%

School 68% · District 68%

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 463%

School 63% · District 63%

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▼ 2 pts below county median

Grade 558%

School 58% · District 58%

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 367%

School 67% · District 67%

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

Grade 463%

School 63% · District 63%

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 554%

School 54% · District 54%

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Science

Grade 464%

School 64% · District 64%

▲ 13 pts above state median · even with county median

Social studies

Grade 475%

School 75% · District 75%

▲ 10 pts above state median · even with county median

This schoolBaldwin-Woodville Area School District, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income52%Higher-income73%21 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income46%Higher-income70%24 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income40%Higher-income60%20 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income66%Higher-income69%3 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income49%Higher-income70%21 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income34%Higher-income68%33 pp gap