Brass Community School

Brass Community School is an elementary campus of mid-tier scale in Kenosha, Wisconsin, part of Kenosha School District, teacheing 462 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 43% bigger than typical.

Across the 41 schools in Kenosha School District (20,297 students total), Brass Community School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Brass Community School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 33% Black, 15% White, 11% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Brass Community School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kenosha County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Brass Community School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.7%, the actual is 16.4%, a residual of -7.3 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Kenosha County) shows that median household earnings sit near $81,239, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Kenosha County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,114 students), Brass Community School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Lincoln Middle, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brass Community School. On composite proficiency, Brass Community School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.2%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Brass Community School's enrollment has shrank 6% since 2018, when it stood at 494 (now 462).

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