Great Lakes Elementary

Great Lakes Elementary, a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Superior, Wisconsin, operated by Superior School District, teaches 348 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Superior School District runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,041 students. Great Lakes Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Great Lakes Elementary lists that nearly all students (81%) are White. The remainder looks like 11% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Douglas County as a whole is about 90% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Great Lakes Elementary shows 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Roughly 14% of students at Great Lakes Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Douglas County's rate of about 24%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Great Lakes Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.2%, the actual is 61.4%, a residual of -7.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Douglas County shows median household income runs about $75,099, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Douglas County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,519 students), of which Great Lakes Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Superior High, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Great Lakes Elementary. On composite proficiency, Great Lakes Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 48.8%.

Great Lakes Elementary operates from a suburban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 23%: 451 students in 2018 compared to 348 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.