Enrollment
241
Elementary
DISTRICT 327 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREEN BAY AREA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550582000622
Fort Howard Elementary
520 Dousman St, Green Bay, WI 54303 · (920) 448-2105 · Brown County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL241 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 48% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
8.9:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
213 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 42%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 14 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 41 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 31 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 32 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 34 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 41 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (41).
Student demographics
78%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
33.0%
WI avg 53.1% . +1.9pp since 2023
Math
35.1%
WI avg 54.8% . +0.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.0% | 35.1% |
| 2023-24 | 31.1% | 34.9% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
39.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.4%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 23% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Wisconsin's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Fort Howard Elementary
Fort Howard Elementary's state test result (39.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Howard Elementary this school | 241 | 88.4% | 39.8% |
| Wilson Elementary Janesville | 256 | 92.2% | 33.3% |
| Howe Elementary Green Bay | 350 | 87.4% | 19.2% |
| Lincoln Elementary Green Bay | 260 | 83.1% | 39.3% |
| Jefferson Head Start Learning Center Green Bay | 161 | 83.9% | N/A |
| Trowbridge Street School of Great Lakes Studies Milwaukee | 228 | 82.9% | 30.4% |
Matched among Wisconsin elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Fort Howard Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Brown County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.8% | #758 of 982 | #31 of 44 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.1% | #785 of 992 ▲ 11 | #33 of 44 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #808 of 992 ▲ 13 | #33 of 44 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 241 | #802 of 1,157 | #41 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.9:1 | #11 of 901 | #1 of 45 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 78.1% | #4 of 901 | #3 of 45 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.4% | #72 of 1,064 | #2 of 50 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
241
-5 (-2%) vs 2020
-16% since 1990-91, when it was 287
Student : Teacher
8.9:1
was 9.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 241 | 26.9 | 8.9:1 | 88% (213) |
| 2023-24 | 257 | 25.7 | 10.0:1 | 86% (222) |
| 2022-23 | 246 | 23.1 | 10.7:1 | 87% (213) |
| 2020-21 | 246 | 26 | 9.5:1 | 96% (235) |
| 2017-18 | 174 | 18.5 | 9.4:1 | 91% (159) |
| 2015-16 | 242 | 28 | 8.6:1 | 95% (230) |
| 2010-11 | 319 | 31 | 10.3:1 | 96% (305) |
| 2000-01 | 316 | 27 | 11.7:1 | 34% (107) |
| 1990-91 | 287 | 15 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fort Howard Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 39% (174 to 241); teachers up 45% (18.5 to 26.9).
About Fort Howard Elementary
Located in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Fort Howard Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school. It had 241 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Wisconsin enroll about 323 students on average.
Federal data list 44 schools in Green Bay Area Public School District, with 18,722 students enrolled.
About 29% of students at Fort Howard Elementary are Hispanic, the largest single group. It is also 24% Black, 20% multiracial, 18% White, and 5% Native American. Brown County's residents are about 10% Hispanic, 19 points below the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 78, compared with 70 nationally.
Its staff includes 26.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 8.9 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Wisconsin, 14.7:1, is higher. Fort Howard Elementary has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 88%. Compared with the 39% average for public schools in Brown County, the school's rate is higher.
On the allk12 Grade, Fort Howard Elementary lands at B-, ahead of 48% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
Compared with Wisconsin schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Fort Howard Elementary does better than predicted by 16.3 points. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 39.8%; the prediction is 23.4%.
The school's county is Brown County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $79,649 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Fort Howard Elementary shares Brown County with 85 other public schools.
A public school about 0.4 miles away, GBAPS Community 4K Site, is the closest to Fort Howard Elementary. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among 7 nearby schools that report test results, Fort Howard Elementary ranks 2nd on proficiency.
NCES assigns Fort Howard Elementary the locale City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Fort Howard Elementary had 246 students in 2020-21 and 241 in 2024-25, nearly the same.
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Brown County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
270,892
Census ACS
Median income
$79,649
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
86
42,385 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Green Bay Area Public School District
- Preble HighHigh · 2,149 students
- Edison MiddleMiddle · 1,121 students
- East HighHigh · 1,119 students
- Southwest HighHigh · 1,025 students
- Red Smith K-8Elementary · 924 students
- West HighHigh · 777 students
Other schools in Green Bay
- Preble HighHigh · 2,149 students
- Bay Port HighHigh · 1,966 students
- Edison MiddleMiddle · 1,121 students
- East HighHigh · 1,119 students
- Southwest HighHigh · 1,025 students
- Ashwaubenon HighHigh · 1,024 students
Nearby schools
- GBAPS Community 4K Site0.4 mi · 122
- Jefferson Head Start Learning Center0.6 mi · 161
- West High0.6 mi · 777
- Leonardo da Vinci School for Gifted Learners0.8 mi · 334
- Northeast Wisconsin School of Innovation0.8 mi · 228
- John Dewey Academy of Learning0.8 mi · 134
Frequently asked questions
About Fort Howard ElementaryHow large is Fort Howard Elementary?
Fort Howard Elementary enrolls approximately 241 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Fort Howard Elementary serve?
Fort Howard Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Fort Howard Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Fort Howard Elementary is approximately 8.9:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Fort Howard Elementary?
At Fort Howard Elementary, the student body is approximately 18% White, 29% Hispanic, 24% Black, 4% Asian, 20% Two or more.
Who oversees Fort Howard Elementary?
Fort Howard Elementary is overseen by Green Bay Area Public School District in Brown County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.