Deer Creek Intermediate

Deer Creek Intermediate is a cozy 6-8 campus in Saint Francis, Wisconsin, operated by Saint Francis School District. The school serves 300 students in grades 4 through 8. That puts it 21% smaller than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 381 students.

Within Saint Francis School District, which oversees 3 schools and 1,106 students, Deer Creek Intermediate is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Deer Creek Intermediate shows that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 30% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 7% Black, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Milwaukee County's rate of about 64%.

After controlling for student poverty, Deer Creek Intermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.0%, the actual is 54.4%, a residual of +5.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Milwaukee County put median household income runs about $64,435, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), Deer Creek Intermediate is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Fernwood Montessori, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Deer Creek Intermediate comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.6%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Deer Creek Intermediate's enrollment has edged down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 354 (now 300). The White share of enrollment declined from 64% to 51% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.