Chegwin Elementary

Chegwin Elementary is an elementary-level community of middle-of-the-pack scale in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, run under Fond du Lac School District, enrolling 296 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Fond du Lac School District, which oversees 15 schools and 6,457 students, Chegwin Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Chegwin Elementary logs that 38% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 30% Hispanic, 17% Black, 10% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Chegwin Elementary has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.6:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fond du Lac County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Chegwin Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.4%, the actual is 36.2%, a residual of +4.8 points.

Across the wider county, Fond du Lac County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,275 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Chegwin Elementary is one of 42 public schools in Fond du Lac County (combined enrollment of about 13,230 students).

Nearest neighbor: Rosenow Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chegwin Elementary. On composite proficiency, Chegwin Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.4%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chegwin Elementary has decreased 14%, going from 345 students in 2018 to 296 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 48% to 38% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.

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