Oakwood Elementary

Set in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Oakwood Elementary is a mid-sized K-5 school, overseen by Oshkosh Area School District. It educates 382 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Oshkosh Area School District runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 9,582 students. Oakwood Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Oakwood Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%); the rest comes out to 6% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. Compared to Winnebago County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Oakwood Elementary logs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Oakwood Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 15% of students at Oakwood Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Winnebago County's rate of about 41%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Oakwood Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 72.7%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Winnebago County) records that the typical household earns roughly $74,925 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Winnebago County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,271 students), Oakwood Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: West High, around 1.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oakwood Elementary. On composite proficiency, Oakwood Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 62.9%.

Oakwood Elementary operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oakwood Elementary has shrank 19%, going from 469 students in 2018 to 382 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 89% to 83%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.

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