Edward Bain School - Creative Arts

Set in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Edward Bain School - Creative Arts is a reasonably sized elementary-level community, run under Kenosha School District. It instructs 361 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Edward Bain School - Creative Arts is one of 41 schools operated by Kenosha School District, a district that instructs 20,297 students overall.

Demographically, Edward Bain School - Creative Arts reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 36% Black, 13% White, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Kenosha County as a whole is about 15% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Edward Bain School - Creative Arts logs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Roughly 83% of students at Edward Bain School - Creative Arts qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Kenosha County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Edward Bain School - Creative Arts is in the bottom 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 26.7%; Edward Bain School - Creative Arts posts 9.3%, -17.3 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Kenosha County indicate the typical household earns roughly $81,239 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Kenosha County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,114 students), Edward Bain School - Creative Arts is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Washington Middle, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Edward Bain School - Creative Arts. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Edward Bain School - Creative Arts at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 22.9%.

Edward Bain School - Creative Arts operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 6-year window, the student count decreased 21%: 456 students in 2018 compared to 361 in 2024.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.