Coolidge Elementary

Coolidge Elementary operates as an average-sized elementary campus in Neenah, Wisconsin, part of Neenah Joint School District. Current enrollment sits at 329 students spanning grades K through 4.

Across the 12 schools in Neenah Joint School District (6,662 students total), Coolidge Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Coolidge Elementary lists that White students make up the majority at 67%; the rest comes out to 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 8% Black, 6% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

On the resource side, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Roughly 40% of students at Coolidge Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Coolidge Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 66.0%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Winnebago County put the typical household earns roughly $74,925 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Winnebago County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,271 students), Coolidge Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Horace Mann Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Coolidge Elementary. On composite proficiency, Coolidge Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 62.0%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Coolidge Elementary has ticked down 10%, going from 364 students in 2018 to 329 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 88% to 67% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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