Jefferson Head Start Learning Center

Jefferson Head Start Learning Center is a low-enrollment elementary school that serves part of Green Bay, Wisconsin. Total enrollment is 161 students, and the grades served are pre-K. That is 50% below the average of about 323 students for elementary schools in Wisconsin.

Jefferson Head Start Learning Center is run by Green Bay Area Public School District, whose 44 schools enroll 18,722 students.

The student body at Jefferson Head Start Learning Center has no majority group. Hispanic students lead at 34%. Other groups include 24% Black, 18% multiracial, 16% White, and 6% Asian. The county population is about 10% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 77, compared with 70 nationally.

Jefferson Head Start Learning Center reports a ratio of 16.1 students per teacher, from 10 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 14.7:1 average for elementary schools in Wisconsin is 1.4 students per teacher. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Jefferson Head Start Learning Center, 84% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 45 points above the 39% average for public schools in Brown County.

Brown County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $79,649, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Brown County's 86 public schools enroll about 42,385 students and include Jefferson Head Start Learning Center.

A public school about 0.6 miles away, Fort Howard Elementary, is the closest to Jefferson Head Start Learning Center. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Jefferson Head Start Learning Center.

NCES lists the school's locale as City: Mid-size. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

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