Algoma Elementary

As a moderately sized primary school in Algoma, Wisconsin, Algoma Elementary hosts 301 students from grades pre-K through 6, one of the schools within Algoma School District.

Across the 3 schools in Algoma School District (623 students total), Algoma Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Algoma Elementary reports that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, Algoma Elementary has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Roughly 42% of students at Algoma Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Kewaunee County (around 26%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Algoma Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.2%, the actual is 48.8%, a residual of -3.4 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Kewaunee County shows the typical household earns roughly $82,725 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Kewaunee County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,505 students), of which Algoma Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Algoma High, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Algoma Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Algoma Elementary at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 51.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Algoma Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 23% since 2018, when it stood at 390 (now 301). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 today.

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