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Aldo Leopold Community School K-8
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Aldo Leopold Community School K-8
Aldo Leopold Community School K-8, a roomy K-5 school in Green Bay, Wisconsin, part of Green Bay Area Public School District, educates 500 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 55% above the state mean of about 323.
Green Bay Area Public School District runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 18,722 students. Aldo Leopold Community School K-8 is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Aldo Leopold Community School K-8 reports that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 13% multiracial, 13% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 4% Black. By comparison, Brown County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, Aldo Leopold Community School K-8 tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.1%.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Brown County put the typical household earns roughly $79,649 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Brown County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,385 students), of which Aldo Leopold Community School K-8 is one.
Howe Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Aldo Leopold Community School K-8 ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 38.4%.
Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 15%: 587 students in 2018 compared to 500 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 72% to 64% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.
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