Heritage Elementary

Heritage Elementary, a large elementary campus in De Pere, Wisconsin, overseen by De Pere School District, hosts 608 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 88% bigger than typical.

De Pere School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 4,485 students. Heritage Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Heritage Elementary logs that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Heritage Elementary has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Roughly 14% of students at Heritage Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Brown County's rate of about 39%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Heritage 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 76.2%, a residual of +7.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Brown County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,649 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Brown County's 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,385 students), Heritage Elementary is one campus in the mix.

De Pere Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Heritage Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 65.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Heritage Elementary's enrollment has expanded 4% since 2018, when it stood at 582 (now 608).

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