The top reported proficiency rate is 89% in Science. The lowest is 65% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Spring Valley Elementary
Spring Valley Elementary serves students from four-year-old kindergarten through fifth grade in the Spring Valley School District, a regular public school in Pierce County, Wisconsin. The school sits on County Road CC, just outside the village of Spring Valley, a small community in western Wisconsin. Because this is an elementary school, there is no graduation rate to report, and the school does not offer advanced placement or career and technical education pathways those programs begin at the secondary level. The academic picture available comes from the Wisconsin Forward state assessments, which the school administered in the 2024-25 school year across grades three through five in math, English language arts, science, and social studies.
The strongest showing came in fourth grade science, where a large share of students met or exceeded the state proficiency standard, and in fourth grade social studies, where the proficient share was also high. In math, third and fourth graders posted strong results, while fifth-grade math proficiency dropped noticeably. English language arts followed a similar pattern, with fourth graders performing well, third graders a bit lower, and fifth graders at the softest point in the elementary sequence. When the school’s overall proficiency, averaged across all tested subjects and grades, is compared against other districts in Pierce County, Spring Valley Elementary sits above the midpoint of the six districts in the county. That means the school is performing in the upper half of the local peer group, though there is a clear step-down from the earlier grades to fifth grade in both math and reading. A parent with a child heading into fifth grade may want to ask the school how it supports students at that transition point.
The student body is predominantly white, which reflects the demographics of the surrounding community. About a quarter of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a standard measure of economic need that here falls below the state average for elementary schools. The school is not a charter and does not hold a magnet designation. Title I status was not reported in the available data, so it is unclear whether the school receives that federal funding stream. Information on special education identification rates and English learner counts was also missing from the data. A parent with a child who has an individualized education plan or who is an English language learner may want to contact the school directly to understand the services available.
Spring Valley itself is a village in Pierce County, and the school sits in a rural setting. Housing values in the area are a bit below the state median, based on the data available, and are slightly above the national median. The local unemployment rate matches the national rate. The school district’s enrollment spans all grades across a single elementary school and a combined middle and high school campus, so the elementary building serves as the entry point for the entire district’s children. The district brief turned up no recent high-impact changes such as boundary shifts, building referenda, or leadership turnover that a parent would need to factor in. The absence of that information suggests a period of relative stability. For a family looking at the area, this school offers solid elementary instruction that compares favorably within Pierce County, with a notable dip in fifth-grade results that merits a conversation with the school to understand how it prepares students for the middle school transition.
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