Dyer Elementary

Dyer Elementary, a moderately sized elementary campus in Burlington, Wisconsin, run under Burlington Area School District, enrolls 395 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 22% bigger than typical.

Burlington Area School District runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 3,035 students. Dyer Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Dyer Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 19% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Dyer Elementary logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. The state averages about 14.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Racine County's rate of about 48%.

With demographic context factored in, Dyer Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.6%; this one delivers 63.5%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Racine County put the typical household earns roughly $78,096 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Racine County's 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,901 students), Dyer Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Cooper Montessori, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dyer Elementary. On composite proficiency, Dyer Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 62.8%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 8%: 431 students in 2018 compared to 395 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 73% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.