Kewaunee Elementary

Kewaunee Elementary is one of the mid-sized elementary schools in Kewaunee, Wisconsin, part of Kewaunee School District, with 392 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 21% above the state mean of about 323.

Within Kewaunee School District, which oversees 3 schools and 861 students, Kewaunee Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Kewaunee Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). The remainder is composed of 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Kewaunee County as a whole is about 93% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Kewaunee Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kewaunee County (around 26%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kewaunee Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.8%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Kewaunee County indicate the typical household earns roughly $82,725 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Kewaunee Elementary is one of 10 public schools in Kewaunee County (combined enrollment of about 3,505 students).

Kewaunee Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Kewaunee Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kewaunee Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 51.9%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kewaunee Elementary has shrank 12%, going from 444 students in 2018 to 392 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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