Silverbrook Intermediate

As a substantial middle school in West Bend, Wisconsin, Silverbrook Intermediate caters to 704 students from grades 5 through 6, one of the schools within West Bend School District. Enrollment runs roughly 85% bigger than the state mean of about 381.

Within West Bend School District, which oversees 12 schools and 5,365 students, Silverbrook Intermediate is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Silverbrook Intermediate records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%); the rest breaks down as 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Washington County as a whole is about 91% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Silverbrook Intermediate has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Washington County (around 23%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Silverbrook Intermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.0%, the actual is 69.5%, a residual of +11.6 points.

In the area at large, Washington County reports that median household earnings sit near $96,359, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Silverbrook Intermediate is one of 34 public schools in Washington County (combined enrollment of about 17,746 students).

Nearest neighbor: McLane Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Silverbrook Intermediate ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 65.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Silverbrook Intermediate's enrollment has fell 25% since 2018, when it stood at 943 (now 704). White enrollment moved from 85% to 81% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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