Magee Elementary

As an intimate primary school in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin, Magee Elementary instructs 255 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Kettle Moraine School District. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Magee Elementary sits 21% below that benchmark.

Kettle Moraine School District comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 3,361 students; Magee Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Magee Elementary records that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Waukesha County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, Magee Elementary has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. About 16% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Magee Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.0%, the actual is 75.7%, a residual of +7.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Waukesha County put the typical household earns roughly $106,076 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Waukesha County's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,032 students), Magee Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Kettle Moraine Explore is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.6 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), Magee Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 73.3%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 249 students in 2018 compared to 255 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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