Oriole Lane Elementary

Oriole Lane Elementary is a K-5 school of well-populated scale in Mequon, Wisconsin, operated by Mequon-Thiensville School District, teacheing 499 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Oriole Lane Elementary sits 54% bigger than that benchmark.

Mequon-Thiensville School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,553 students. Oriole Lane Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Oriole Lane Elementary reports that 78% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder breaks down as 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 90% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Oriole Lane Elementary lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 15% 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 residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Oriole Lane Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.4%, the actual is 76.7%, a residual of +8.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Ozaukee County indicate median household earnings sit near $96,996, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Ozaukee County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,422 students), Oriole Lane Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Lake Shore Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Oriole Lane Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 76.1%.

Oriole Lane Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 5%: 476 students in 2018 compared to 499 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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