De Pere High

De Pere High operates as a large high school in De Pere, Wisconsin, operated by De Pere School District. Current enrollment sits at 1,466 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 209% above the state mean of about 475.

Within De Pere School District, which oversees 6 schools and 4,485 students, De Pere High is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, De Pere High reports that nearly all students (84%) are White; the rest breaks down as 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, De Pere High reports 93 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.6:1, putting De Pere High higher than the state norm the norm. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Brown County's rate of about 39%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), De Pere High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.8%, the actual is 62.9%, a residual of -2.9 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Brown County) records that median household income runs about $79,649, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Brown County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,385 students), of which De Pere High is one.

De Pere Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around De Pere High. On composite proficiency, De Pere High comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 64.1%.

De Pere High operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 5%: 1,390 students in 2018 compared to 1,466 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, members of the De Pere High community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.