Dousman Elementary

Located at 341 E Ottawa Ave, in Dousman, Wisconsin, Dousman Elementary is a moderately sized elementary-level community that hosts 311 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Kettle Moraine School District.

Within Kettle Moraine School District, which oversees 12 schools and 3,361 students, Dousman Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Dousman Elementary shows that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 8% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Waukesha County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Dousman Elementary logs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 14% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Dousman Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.0%, the actual is 62.8%, a residual of -6.2 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Waukesha County) records that the typical household earns roughly $106,076 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Waukesha County's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,032 students), Dousman Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Kettle Moraine Middle, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Dousman Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 69.5%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Dousman Elementary's enrollment has edged down 25% since 2018, when it stood at 416 (now 311). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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