De Pere Middle

De Pere Middle operates as a heavily attended 6-8 campus in De Pere, Wisconsin, operated by De Pere School District. Current enrollment sits at 690 students spanning grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 381 students each, so De Pere Middle sits 81% bigger than that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, De Pere Middle shows that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian, 3% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Brown County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, De Pere Middle ranks in the top 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 64.4%; De Pere Middle posts 78.6%, +14.2 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Brown County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $79,649 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. De Pere Middle is one of 86 public schools in Brown County (combined enrollment of about 42,385 students).

The closest other public school is De Pere High, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around De Pere Middle. On composite proficiency, De Pere Middle comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. De Pere Middle's enrollment has grew 7% since 2018, when it stood at 645 (now 690).

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