Edison Elementary

As a small elementary campus in Appleton, Wisconsin, Edison Elementary instructs 242 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Appleton Area School District. Enrollment runs roughly 25% smaller than the state mean of about 323.

Across the 38 schools in Appleton Area School District (14,994 students total), Edison Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Edison Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Black, 5% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Edison Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Outagamie County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Edison Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.7%, the actual is 46.6%, a residual of -0.2 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Outagamie County put median household income runs about $85,069, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Edison Elementary is one of 73 public schools in Outagamie County (combined enrollment of about 31,330 students).

Appleview is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Edison Elementary. On composite proficiency, Edison Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 45.9%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 13%: 278 students in 2018 compared to 242 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 3% to 12% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.