Freedom Elementary

Freedom Elementary is one of the sprawling elementary schools in Freedom, Wisconsin, operated by Freedom Area School District, with 691 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 114% above the state mean of about 323.

Within Freedom Area School District, which oversees 3 schools and 1,540 students, Freedom Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Freedom Elementary logs that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 3% Native American. That composition is broadly in line with Outagamie County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Freedom Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 20% of students at Freedom Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Outagamie County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Freedom Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.1%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Outagamie County indicate the typical household earns roughly $85,069 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Outagamie County's 73 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,330 students), Freedom Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Freedom High, around 1.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Freedom Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Freedom Elementary at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 63.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 705 students in 2018 compared to 691 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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