Friendship Learning Elementary

Friendship Learning Elementary is one of the expansive elementary schools in North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, run under North Fond du Lac School District, with 612 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 89% larger than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

North Fond du Lac School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 1,571 students; Friendship Learning Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Friendship Learning Elementary lists that White students make up the majority at 63%; the rest looks like 26% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Fond du Lac County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Friendship Learning Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.1%, the actual is 45.9%, a residual of -0.1 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Fond du Lac County indicate median household income runs about $74,275, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Fond du Lac County's 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,230 students), Friendship Learning Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Bessie Allen Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Friendship Learning Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Friendship Learning Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 36.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Friendship Learning Elementary has increased 23%, going from 497 students in 2018 to 612 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 79% to 63%.

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