Renaissance School

Renaissance School operates as a rural-scale high school in Appleton, Wisconsin, overseen by Appleton Area School District. Current enrollment sits at 151 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 68% leaner than the state mean of about 475.

Appleton Area School District comprises 38 schools with combined enrollment of 14,994 students; Renaissance School is among them.

On demographics, Renaissance School reports that nearly all students (84%) are White; the rest comes out to 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Renaissance School records 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 36.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.6:1, putting Renaissance School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 25% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Renaissance School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.2%, the actual is 72.0%, a residual of +9.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Outagamie County indicate median household earnings sit near $85,069, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Renaissance School is one of 73 public schools in Outagamie County (combined enrollment of about 31,330 students).

West High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Renaissance School. On composite proficiency, Renaissance School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 48.0%.

The school occupies a downtown site. Renaissance School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Renaissance School has declined 5%, going from 159 students in 2018 to 151 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 9% to 3% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 43.0:1 in 2018 to 36.0:1 in 2025.

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