Roberts Elementary

Set in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Roberts Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, part of Fond du Lac School District. It caters to 317 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 15 schools in Fond du Lac School District (6,457 students total), Roberts Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Roberts Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 69%. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Fond du Lac County (around 41%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Roberts Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.7%, the actual is 55.2%, a residual of +8.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Fond du Lac County) records that the typical household earns roughly $74,275 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Roberts Elementary is one of 42 public schools in Fond du Lac County (combined enrollment of about 13,230 students).

The closest other public school is Waters Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Roberts Elementary at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 50.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Roberts Elementary has fell 14%, going from 369 students in 2018 to 317 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 82% to 69% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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