Lincoln Elementary

Located at 210 Gould St, in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, Lincoln Elementary is a small elementary campus that teaches 201 students (grades K through 5), part of Beaver Dam Unified School District. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Lincoln Elementary sits 38% below that benchmark.

Across the 8 schools in Beaver Dam Unified School District (2,988 students total), Lincoln Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lincoln Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 26% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Dodge County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Lincoln Elementary has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Dodge County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lincoln Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 50.5%.

Around the school, census data for Dodge County shows median household earnings sit near $75,929, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dodge County's 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,450 students), Lincoln Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Beaver Dam High, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lincoln Elementary at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 57.6%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Lincoln Elementary's enrollment has edged down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 217 (now 201). Hispanic enrollment moved from 18% to 26% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

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