Park Community Charter School

Located at 509 Lawe St, in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, Park Community Charter School is a cozy elementary-level community that enrolls 256 students (grades pre-K through 4), run under Kaukauna Area School District. Enrollment runs roughly 21% smaller than the state mean of about 323.

Within Kaukauna Area School District, which oversees 7 schools and 4,044 students, Park Community Charter School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Park Community Charter School shows that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 9% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 2% Asian.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. The state averages about 14.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Park Community Charter School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 60.1%; this one delivers 74.1%, a residual of +14.0 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Outagamie County) reports that median household earnings sit near $85,069, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Outagamie County runs 73 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,330 students), of which Park Community Charter School is one.

The closest other public school is River View School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Park Community Charter School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 67.9%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site. As a public charter, Park Community Charter School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Park Community Charter School has expanded 19%, going from 216 students in 2018 to 256 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 96% to 81% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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