Pier Elementary

Pier Elementary, a compact primary school in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Fond du Lac School District, works with 274 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Fond du Lac School District comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 6,457 students; Pier Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Pier Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 21% Hispanic, 19% Black, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Pier Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Fond du Lac County's rate of about 41%.

After controlling for student poverty, Pier Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.8%; this one delivers 40.0%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Fond du Lac County put the typical household earns roughly $74,275 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Fond du Lac County runs 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,230 students), of which Pier Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Theisen Middle, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pier Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 52.9%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 28%: 379 students in 2018 compared to 274 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 71% to 47% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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