Denmark Elementary

Set in Denmark, Wisconsin, Denmark Elementary is a sprawling elementary school, operated by Denmark School District. It enrolls 778 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 141% larger than the state mean of about 323.

Denmark School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,827 students; Denmark Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Denmark Elementary records that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Denmark Elementary has 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Brown County's rate of about 39%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Denmark 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 66.1%, a residual of +2.4 points.

In the surrounding community, Brown County reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,649 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Brown County's 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,385 students), Denmark Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Viking Academy, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Denmark Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Denmark Elementary's enrollment has expanded 44% since 2018, when it stood at 541 (now 778).

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