O Brown Elementary

O Brown Elementary is a K-5 school of roomy scale in Racine, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Racine Unified School District, teacheing 540 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 67% above the state mean of about 323.

O Brown Elementary is one of 27 schools operated by Racine Unified School District, a district that teaches 16,557 students overall.

On the student-mix side, O Brown Elementary lists that 60% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 23% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 8% Black. By comparison, Racine County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Racine County (around 48%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, O Brown Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.9%, the actual is 39.5%, a residual of -14.3 points.

Across the wider county, Racine County reports that median household earnings sit near $78,096, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Racine County runs 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,901 students), of which O Brown Elementary is one.

Jerstad-Agerholm School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, O Brown Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 31.8%.

O Brown Elementary operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 15%: 469 students in 2018 compared to 540 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 72% to 60% over that span.

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