The top reported proficiency rate is 33% in English language arts. The lowest is 17% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Anthony Acres School
Anthony Acres School is a small public charter school serving grades six through twelve in the rural countryside north of Mondovi, Wisconsin. With a total enrollment that is modest even for a charter school, it offers a learning environment where students are likely to be well known to staff and to one another. The school is part of the Mondovi School District, which operates a larger main campus in the city itself for elementary through high school students. Anthony Acres functions as an alternative setting within that district, and its size and charter status signal a noticeably different experience from the district’s conventional school.
The student body is overwhelmingly white, with a small share of students identifying as Hispanic or as two or more races. Just over a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a rate that places the school in a familiar economic middle ground for rural Wisconsin. Federal data on special education identification and English learner status were not available, so a family may want to ask the school directly about the supports it offers for students with individualized education plans or those learning English.
On Wisconsin’s Forward assessments, the only clearly readable result comes from sixth grade. In math, roughly one in six sixth graders scored at the proficient level or above. In English language arts, about one in three did. For every other tested grade and subject, the state suppressed the results, almost certainly because the number of students tested was too small to report publicly. The school’s overall proficiency index, which averages all reported scores across subjects and grades, places Anthony Acres in the bottom quartile relative to the five districts in Eau Claire County that were used for comparison. A parent will want to consider whether the school’s small size and alternative setting may provide other benefits that a single proficiency number does not capture.
Because the school does not serve the upper high school grades in a way that yields a standard graduation rate in the available data, no four-year graduation rate is reported here. That gap is typical for a small school where cohort sizes may fall below state thresholds for public reporting. A parent should check directly with the school about its postsecondary and completion outcomes.
The local community of Mondovi is a small town set along the Buffalo River. It has a public library, several parks including Mirror Lake Park and the Joseph Peterson Arboretum, and the Buffalo River State Trail, which runs through town for biking, hiking, and snowmobiling. The district itself is a notable local employer, and the city describes itself as supportive of business growth with available real estate. Population growth has been slow and steady since the last federal census. For a family looking at housing, home values in the area are somewhat below the Wisconsin state benchmark, though rents and mortgage costs reflect a broader national trend in which renting is slightly cheaper than buying at current interest rates. The district brief turned up no recent major changes like a boundary redraw or leadership turnover, so a parent is unlikely to encounter a disruption on that front.
For whom does this fit? A family seeking an intentionally small school setting for a middle or high school student, one that is not the district’s main campus and where class sizes are necessarily very small, may find Anthony Acres worth a close look. The academic results are low relative to other districts in the county, and the data picture is thin because of the school’s size, so a parent will want to speak with the school’s principal or teaching staff about curriculum, course offerings, and how the school prepares students for life after twelfth grade. The school’s charter status also means it may operate with a specific mission or instructional approach; that mission was not detailed in the available data, so a direct conversation is the best way to learn whether it aligns with a student’s needs.
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