Enrollment
317
Elementary
DISTRICT 309 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FOND DU LAC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550468000502
Roberts Elementary
270 Candy Ln, Fond du Lac, WI 54935 · (920) 929-2835 · Fond du Lac County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL317 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 55% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
160 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 42%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 49 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 63 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (63).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
58.7%
WI avg 53.1% . +7.5pp since 2023
Math
53.5%
WI avg 54.8% . -0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.7% | 53.5% |
| 2023-24 | 51.2% | 54.2% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
55.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.7%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Roberts Elementary
Roberts Elementary's state test result (55.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roberts Elementary this school | 317 | 50.5% | 55.2% |
| Haen Elementary Kaukauna | 323 | 51.4% | 60.7% |
| Madison Elementary Stevens Point | 360 | 50.3% | 62.0% |
| Rosenow Elementary Fond du Lac | 351 | 51.3% | 56.0% |
| Kennedy Elementary Janesville | 404 | 52.2% | 71.4% |
| Waters Elementary Fond du Lac | 389 | 46.3% | 62.7% |
Matched among Wisconsin elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Roberts Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Fond du Lac County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.2% | #524 of 982 | #10 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.5% | #530 of 992 ▲ 25 | #12 of 17 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.7% | #363 of 992 ▲ 203 | #6 of 17 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 317 | #561 of 1,157 | #9 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #292 of 901 | #9 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.3% | #325 of 901 | #8 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.5% | #405 of 1,064 | #8 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.1% | #345 of 664 | #6 of 14 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
317
-18 (-5%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 439
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 15.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 317 | 26.1 | 12.2:1 | 50% (160) |
| 2023-24 | 320 | 26.2 | 12.2:1 | 47% (149) |
| 2022-23 | 340 | 25.4 | 13.4:1 | 43% (145) |
| 2020-21 | 335 | 22 | 15.2:1 | 40% (135) |
| 2017-18 | 369 | 25.5 | 14.5:1 | 35% (129) |
| 2015-16 | 450 | 25 | 18.0:1 | 36% (162) |
| 2010-11 | 455 | 24 | 19.0:1 | 32% (146) |
| 2000-01 | 481 | 22 | 21.9:1 | 21% (102) |
| 1990-91 | 439 | 20 | 21.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Roberts Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (369 to 317); teachers up 2% (25.5 to 26.1).
About Roberts Elementary
Families in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, are served by Roberts Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school. In all, 317 students attend the school in pre-K through 5.
A total of 15 schools make up Fond du Lac School District, with 6,457 students enrolled.
More than half of the students at Roberts Elementary are White (69%). The remaining shares are 16% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Black, and 3% Asian. Census estimates put the White share of Fond du Lac County's population at about 88%. The diversity index for Roberts Elementary is 49%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its ratio of 12.2:1 is based on 26.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Wisconsin have an average ratio of 14.7:1. In all, 50% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Fond du Lac County averages 41%, lower than here.
Roberts Elementary earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 55% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
Roberts Elementary is 8.5 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (55.2% versus 46.7%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Wisconsin.
Looking at the county, Fond du Lac County, the median household earns about $74,275 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 22%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Counting Roberts Elementary, Fond du Lac County has 42 public schools.
Waters Elementary is about 0.6 miles from Roberts Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Roberts Elementary ranks 5th on average proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put Roberts Elementary inside a principal city with a population under 100,000 (City: Small).
The school shrank from 335 students in 2020-21 to 317 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 15.2:1; by 2024-25 it was 12.2:1.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at Roberts Elementary. You can also rate the school on this page.
Fond du Lac County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
104,137
Census ACS
Median income
$74,275
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
42
13,230 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fond du Lac School District
- Fond du Lac HighHigh · 1,917 students
- Sabish MiddleMiddle · 445 students
- Theisen MiddleMiddle · 431 students
- Woodworth MiddleMiddle · 413 students
- Waters ElementaryElementary · 389 students
- Lakeshore ElementaryElementary · 354 students
Other schools in Fond du Lac
- Fond du Lac HighHigh · 1,917 students
- Sabish MiddleMiddle · 445 students
- Theisen MiddleMiddle · 431 students
- Woodworth MiddleMiddle · 413 students
- Waters ElementaryElementary · 389 students
- Lakeshore ElementaryElementary · 354 students
Other Roberts Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 7 states are named Roberts Elementary. Roberts Elementary is the 7th largest of the 10.
- Roberts Elementary SchoolSuwanee, GA · 946 students
- ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLTALLAHASSEE, FL · 807 students
- Roberts Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 721 students
- Roberts Elementary SchoolSHELBY TOWNSHIP, MI · 534 students
- Roberts Elementary SchoolLUBBOCK, TX · 526 students
Nearby schools
- Waters Elementary0.6 mi · 389
- Woodworth Middle0.6 mi · 413
- Theisen Middle1.0 mi · 431
- Chegwin Elementary1.0 mi · 296
- Riverside Elementary1.1 mi · 273
- Rosenow Elementary1.1 mi · 351
Frequently asked questions
About Roberts ElementaryHow large is Roberts Elementary?
Roberts Elementary enrolls approximately 317 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Roberts Elementary serve?
Roberts Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Roberts Elementary?
Approximately 12.2:1 students per teacher at Roberts Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Roberts Elementary?
Student demographics at Roberts Elementary are roughly 69% White, 16% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Roberts Elementary public or private?
Roberts Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Fond du Lac School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.