Dickinson Elementary

Dickinson Elementary is a primary school of big scale in De Pere, Wisconsin, part of De Pere School District, serveing 523 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Dickinson Elementary sits 62% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 6 schools in De Pere School District (4,485 students total), Dickinson Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Dickinson Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%); the rest comes out to 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 4% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Brown County (around 39%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Dickinson Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 72.2%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Brown County indicate median household earnings sit near $79,649, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Dickinson Elementary is one of 86 public schools in Brown County (combined enrollment of about 42,385 students).

Foxview Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dickinson Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 62.8%.

Dickinson Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Dickinson Elementary's enrollment has decreased 11% since 2018, when it stood at 590 (now 523). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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