Deerfield Elementary

Set in Deerfield, Wisconsin, Deerfield Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school, operated by Deerfield Community School District. It caters to 409 students across grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 27% above the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

Deerfield Community School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 730 students. Deerfield Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Deerfield Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Deerfield Elementary has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Dane County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Deerfield Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.7%, the actual is 58.9%, a residual of -4.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Dane County shows median household income runs about $89,975, 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Dane County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), of which Deerfield Elementary is one.

Deerfield High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Deerfield Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 60.3%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Deerfield Elementary's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 455 (now 409). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

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