The top reported proficiency rate is 65% in Social studies. The lowest is 42% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Bloomer Elementary
Bloomer Elementary serves students from pre-kindergarten through fourth grade in the Bloomer School District, a single small city in western Wisconsin’s Chippewa County. The school is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet, and it sits at the primary end of a district that runs through middle and high school. Because the school stops at fourth grade, there is no graduation rate to report, and the academic picture comes entirely from state testing in the grades it does serve.
On the Wisconsin Forward assessments, math proficiency in third grade was solid. By fourth grade, the share of students meeting state standards in math dipped a bit. In English language arts, the pattern was similar: third graders cleared the halfway mark, but fourth graders landed below it. Science, tested only in fourth grade, showed a share of students reaching proficiency that was lower than in either math or ELA at that grade level. Social studies in fourth grade, by contrast, was the strongest tested subject, with a majority of students scoring proficient. The school’s overall proficiency index across all tested subjects and grades sits below the midpoint when compared with other districts in Chippewa County. The numbers suggest that as students move through the early elementary grades, particularly into fourth grade, the share meeting state benchmarks declines in core subjects, a pattern a parent may want to discuss with the school to understand what supports are in place.
The student body is overwhelmingly white, with small numbers of students identifying as Black, Hispanic, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, or two or more races. About two-fifths of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a measure that places the school in a moderate range for economic need in the region. Data on students with individualized education programs and English learners was not available in the reporting.
Bloomer itself is a small, predominantly rural city of modest size, situated roughly twenty-five miles north of Interstate 94 along U.S. Highway 53. The community is compact, with Lake Como at its center, six city parks, a walking trail, an aquatic center, and an 18-hole golf course. The built environment is car-oriented and typical of a small Wisconsin town. Mayo Clinic Health System operates a hospital and clinic in town, and the school district is another significant local employer. The area has seen modest population growth and rising home values in recent years, though no major new housing developments were identified in publicly available information. The district brief turned up no recent changes such as referendums, curriculum shifts, or facility updates that would meet a meaningful-change threshold, so that context is absent rather than assumed.
The school’s enrollment is sizable for an elementary serving only PK-4, with a relatively large pre-kindergarten and kindergarten cohort tapering slightly by fourth grade. The school fits a family looking for a conventional early elementary experience in a small-town setting where the community is walkable at its core and the district feeds into a single public middle and high school. The testing profile shows a school that performs strongest in social studies and early-grade math, with room for growth in later elementary English language arts and science. A parent whose child needs targeted academic support, especially as fourth grade approaches, may want to ask what interventions or enrichment the school offers in those transitional years.
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