Baird Elementary

Baird Elementary is an elementary campus of substantial scale in Green Bay, Wisconsin, overseen by Green Bay Area Public School District, caters to 513 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Baird Elementary sits 59% larger than that benchmark.

Green Bay Area Public School District runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 18,722 students. Baird Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Baird Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 33% White, 9% Asian, 8% multiracial, 6% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Baird Elementary has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Baird Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 64% of students at Baird Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Brown County (around 39%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Baird Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.3%.

Around the school, Brown County reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,649 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Baird Elementary is one of 86 public schools in Brown County (combined enrollment of about 42,385 students).

Brown County Institute of Learning is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Baird Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Baird Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 33.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 27%: 404 students in 2018 compared to 513 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 20% to 6%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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