Read Elementary

As a reasonably sized primary school in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Read Elementary educates 383 students from grades K through 5, run under Oshkosh Area School District.

Across the 21 schools in Oshkosh Area School District (9,582 students total), Read Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Read Elementary reports that 40% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 25% Black, 16% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 8% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

On the resource side, Read Elementary logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Read Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 69% of students at Read Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Winnebago County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Read Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.0%, the actual is 32.3%, a residual of -2.8 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Winnebago County shows median household earnings sit near $74,925, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Read Elementary is one of 56 public schools in Winnebago County (combined enrollment of about 22,271 students).

Roosevelt Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Read Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 40.5%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 8%: 354 students in 2018 compared to 383 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 64% to 40%.

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