Southern Door Elementary

Set in Brussels, Wisconsin, Southern Door Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary campus, operated by Southern Door County School District. It caters to 482 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Southern Door Elementary sits 49% above that benchmark.

Southern Door County School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 991 students. Southern Door Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Southern Door Elementary logs that nearly all students (87%) are White; the rest consists of 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Southern Door Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.0%, the actual is 65.5%, a residual of +12.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Door County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,795 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Southern Door Elementary is one of 16 public schools in Door County (combined enrollment of about 3,203 students).

Southern Door Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 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), Southern Door Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 59.2%.

Southern Door Elementary operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Southern Door Elementary has contracted 3%, going from 499 students in 2018 to 482 in 2025.

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