Oconto Elementary

Oconto Elementary is an elementary school of reasonably sized scale in Oconto, Wisconsin, part of Oconto Unified School District, instructing 340 students in grades pre-K through 4.

Oconto Unified School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 922 students; Oconto Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Oconto Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). The remainder is composed of 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. Compared to Oconto County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Oconto Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Oconto County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Oconto Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.8%, the actual is 46.7%, a residual of +3.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Oconto County shows median household income runs about $75,049, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Oconto County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,349 students), Oconto Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Oconto Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Oconto Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 52.5%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Oconto Elementary's enrollment has shrank 19% since 2018, when it stood at 420 (now 340). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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