North Crawford Elementary, Soldiers Grove WI

Original Research by School Decision on North Crawford Elementary

North Crawford Elementary sits in the small rural village of Soldiers Grove, a community along the Kickapoo River in Crawford County where the business district was relocated to higher ground in the early 1980s and now features solar-heated commercial buildings. The village is home to a mix of local eateries, taverns, and Beauford T. Anderson Park, which hosts annual festivals. Manufacturing, health care, and construction employ most residents, and commute times tend to be lengthy, with most people driving alone. Housing values in the area fall below both the state and national medians, though they have seen meaningful year-over-year growth.

North Crawford Elementary serves students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. The school is a regular public school, part of the North Crawford School District. With an enrollment that is relatively small for a PK-8 building, the student body is overwhelmingly white, with small shares of Hispanic and multiracial students and a very small Black population. About half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a typical rate for a rural school in this part of Wisconsin.

Academic results come from Wisconsin’s Forward exam for grades three through eight. Performance varies notably by grade and subject. In the early elementary grades, a solid majority of students meet or exceed state standards in math and English language arts. By fifth grade, both subjects show a strong share of proficient students. Middle school grades tell a more mixed story. In sixth grade math, fewer than one in three students scored proficient, and in eighth grade math the share was similarly low. English language arts in the middle grades holds somewhat stronger, particularly in eighth grade where a clear majority are on grade level. Science results in fourth and eighth grade both show a comfortable majority of students meeting the bar. Social studies stands out as a relative bright spot, especially in fourth grade where a very large share of students are proficient, and eighth grade also performs well.

When placed against the other three districts in Crawford County on a combined proficiency index across all tested subjects and grades, North Crawford Elementary sits below the midpoint of the county. That is a softer overall picture, and a parent may want to look into how the school supports students in the middle grades, where math proficiency drops off. No chronic absenteeism data was available, and because the school does not serve high school grades, a graduation rate does not apply.

No recent district-level changes or strategic initiatives appeared in the available information, so the school appears to be continuing without major announced shifts. No information on course access, staffing ratios, or disciplinary patterns was provided.

For families considering this school, the context is a small, rural community with affordable housing relative to state averages, a school that tends to perform well in the early grades and in social studies, but where middle school math is a point to examine. The peer environment is largely homogeneous, and the school’s size is small enough that students across grades likely know each other. The school’s academic trajectory is uneven, and a parent with a child entering the upper elementary or middle school years may want to ask how the school addresses the dip in math proficiency that appears once students leave the primary grades.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 356%

School 56% · District 56%

▼ 1 pts below state median

Grade 471%

School 71% · District 71%

▲ 17 pts above state median

Grade 566%

School 66% · District 66%

▲ 14 pts above state median

Grade 626%

School 26% · District 26%

▼ 28 pts below state median

Grade 748%

School 48% · District 48%

▼ 6 pts below state median

Grade 826%

School 26% · District 26%

▼ 25 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 356%

School 56% · District 56%

▲ 3 pts above state median

Grade 452%

School 52% · District 52%

even with state median

Grade 569%

School 69% · District 69%

▲ 18 pts above state median

Grade 642%

School 42% · District 42%

▼ 11 pts below state median

Grade 752%

School 52% · District 52%

even with state median

Grade 865%

School 65% · District 65%

▲ 13 pts above state median

Science

Grade 457%

School 57% · District 57%

▲ 6 pts above state median

Grade 861%

School 61% · District 61%

▲ 10 pts above state median

Social studies

Grade 481%

School 81% · District 81%

▲ 16 pts above state median

Grade 870%

School 70% · District 70%

▲ 5 pts above state median

This schoolNorth Crawford 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-income55%Higher-income56%2 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income53%Higher-income50%3 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income59%Higher-income80%21 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income47%Higher-income33%14 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income54%Higher-income50%4 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income46%Higher-income83%38 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income73%Higher-income44%29 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income80%Higher-income50%30 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income59%Higher-income73%15 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income22%Higher-income33%11 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income39%Higher-income60%22 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income18%Higher-income33%15 pp gap