Bay Harbor Elementary

Set in Suamico, Wisconsin, Bay Harbor Elementary is a medium-sized primary school, part of Howard-Suamico School District. It enrolls 344 students across grades pre-K through 4.

Howard-Suamico School District comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 5,678 students; Bay Harbor Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Bay Harbor Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). Beyond that, the school lists 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

On the resource side, On paper, Bay Harbor Elementary has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 20% of students at Bay Harbor Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Brown County (around 39%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Bay Harbor Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.2%, the actual is 69.0%, a residual of +3.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Brown County shows median household income runs about $79,649, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Bay Harbor Elementary is one of 86 public schools in Brown County (combined enrollment of about 42,385 students).

Suamico Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 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), Bay Harbor Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 64.5%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Bay Harbor Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 413 (now 344). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.