The top reported proficiency rate is 50% in Math. The lowest is 33% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Goodman-armstrong Elementary
Goodman-Armstrong Elementary sits in a small, rural residential community in Marinette County that originated as a company lumber town. The town of Goodman has a compact center with a square, a recently reopened club house, and a historical society museum, but the overall built environment is sparse and car-dependent, with very limited commercial activity. The economy today employs only a small number of people, with manufacturing as the largest sector, and the lumber mill that founded the town has closed permanently. The population has been declining, and median household income has also fallen. The school is part of the Goodman-Armstrong Creek School District, a very small district that serves this community.
The school serves students from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. The enrollment is small, typical for a school in a community of this size. The student body is predominantly white, with a very small share of Hispanic students. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which signals that a significant portion of families face economic challenges.
Because the school serves only elementary and middle grades through sixth, there is no graduation rate to report. State testing data is available for only one grade and one subject. For third-grade math, about half of the tested students scored at the proficient or above level, and for third-grade English language arts, about a third did. For all other tested grades and subjects, the state has suppressed the results, which typically happens when the number of students tested is very small and could identify individual students. This means a reader cannot get a full picture of academic performance across the school. A parent may want to ask the school directly for more information about how students are progressing in the upper elementary grades.
When compared with other districts in Marinette County, the school's overall proficiency across the subjects and grades where results are reported falls below the midpoint of the group. This is based on a composite measure of the limited data available, so the picture is incomplete.
No information on chronic absenteeism was available for this school. The school's website was not part of the research materials provided, so course offerings, after-school programs, and other programming details are not included here. The district brief turned up no recent parent-relevant changes such as referendums, curriculum shifts, or property tax updates.
For families considering this area, housing values in the town's zip code are well below the state benchmark and also below the national benchmark, reflecting the local economic conditions. Goodman-Armstrong Elementary offers a small-scale, close-to-home educational setting in a rural community that is economically modest and facing population decline. The limited testing data makes it difficult to gauge academic strengths and weaknesses from public sources alone, and a family would likely want to speak with school staff to understand how the school supports student learning across all grades.
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