Green Bay Head Start

Green Bay Head Start, an intimate K-5 school in Green Bay, Wisconsin, operated by Green Bay Area Public School District, teaches 183 students, covering grade pre-K. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Green Bay Head Start sits 43% leaner than that benchmark.

Green Bay Area Public School District runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 18,722 students. Green Bay Head Start is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Green Bay Head Start lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 17% White, 13% Black, 12% multiracial, 8% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 12 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. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Brown County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, census data for Brown County shows median household income runs about $79,649, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Brown County's 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,385 students), Green Bay Head Start is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Eisenhower Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Green Bay Head Start.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Green Bay Head Start's enrollment has contracted 5% since 2018, when it stood at 192 (now 183). Hispanic enrollment moved from 42% to 49% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Green Bay Head Start community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.