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Enrollment
525
Elementary
DISTRICT 552 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DE PERE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550321002668
Susie C Altmayer Elementary
3001 Ryan Rd, De Pere, WI 54115 · (920) 338-1894 · Brown County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL525 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 97% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
14.2:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.9:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
127 students
DISTRICT 21% · STATE 42%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 112 | 21% |
| Kindergarten | 84 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 89 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (82).
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within De Pere School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
80.5%
WI avg 53.1% . +7.2pp since 2023
Math
84.9%
WI avg 54.8% . +0.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 80.5% | 84.9% |
| 2023-24 | 73.3% | 84.5% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
78.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.8%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 63% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Wisconsin's top 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 Susie C Altmayer Elementary
Susie C Altmayer Elementary's state test result (78.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Susie C Altmayer Elementary this school | 525 | 24.2% | 78.9% |
| Dr H B Tanner Elementary Kaukauna | 466 | 25.1% | N/A |
| Dickinson Elementary De Pere | 523 | 23.5% | 72.2% |
| Belleville Elementary Belleville | 550 | 21.1% | 67.8% |
| Fox Prairie Elementary Stoughton | 443 | 24.4% | 67.3% |
| Meadowbrook Elementary Green Bay | 478 | 23.2% | 65.2% |
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 Susie C Altmayer Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Brown County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.9% | #43 of 982 | #2 of 44 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 84.9% | #24 of 992 ▲ 10 | #3 of 44 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 80.5% | #33 of 992 ▲ 62 | #2 of 44 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 525 | #118 of 1,157 | #10 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #614 of 901 | #31 of 45 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.9% | #438 of 901 | #29 of 45 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.2% | #822 of 1,064 | #35 of 50 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.1% | #234 of 664 | #8 of 29 |
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
525
-5 (-1%) vs 2020
+9% since 2010-11, when it was 480
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 525 | 36.9 | 14.2:1 | 24% (127) |
| 2023-24 | 521 | 34.9 | 14.9:1 | 29% (152) |
| 2022-23 | 519 | 34.7 | 15.0:1 | 29% (148) |
| 2020-21 | 530 | 38 | 13.9:1 | 23% (123) |
| 2017-18 | 649 | 38.2 | 17.0:1 | 16% (107) |
| 2015-16 | 586 | 33 | 17.8:1 | 17% (100) |
| 2010-11 | 480 | 31 | 15.5:1 | 9% (43) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Susie C Altmayer Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (649 to 525); teachers down 3% (38.2 to 36.9).
About Susie C Altmayer Elementary
Among the schools in De Pere, Wisconsin, is Susie C Altmayer Elementary, a large elementary school. The school teaches pre-K through 4 and enrolls 525 students. That is 63% above the average of about 323 students for elementary schools in Wisconsin.
The 6 schools of De Pere School District, including Susie C Altmayer Elementary, enroll 4,485 students.
The largest group at Susie C Altmayer Elementary is White students, at 76%. Enrollment also includes 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Brown County residents are about 79% White, a similar share. The diversity index for Susie C Altmayer Elementary is 40%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Susie C Altmayer Elementary reports a ratio of 14.2 students per teacher, from 36.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among elementary schools in Wisconsin is similar, at 14.7:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Susie C Altmayer Elementary, 24% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 39% average for public schools in Brown County is 15 points.
Among Wisconsin public elementary schools, Susie C Altmayer Elementary outscored 97%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
Susie C Altmayer Elementary outperforms its prediction by 16.1 points. The model expects 62.8% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Wisconsin; the school's rate is 78.9%.
For Brown County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $79,649, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. There are 86 public schools in the county, enrolling about 42,385, Susie C Altmayer Elementary among them.
Heritage Elementary is about 1.6 miles away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Susie C Altmayer Elementary at 1st of 9.
The NCES locale for Susie C Altmayer Elementary is Suburb: Mid-size, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 525, close to the 530 recorded in 2020-21.
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Brown County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
270,892
Census ACS
Median income
$79,649
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
86
42,385 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in De Pere School District
- De Pere HighHigh · 1,466 students
- De Pere MiddleMiddle · 690 students
- Foxview IntermediateMiddle · 673 students
- Heritage ElementaryElementary · 608 students
- Dickinson ElementaryElementary · 523 students
Other schools in De Pere
- De Pere HighHigh · 1,466 students
- West De Pere HighHigh · 1,050 students
- Hemlock Creek ElementaryElementary · 822 students
- De Pere MiddleMiddle · 690 students
- Foxview IntermediateMiddle · 673 students
- Westwood ElementaryElementary · 623 students
Nearby schools
- Heritage Elementary1.6 mi · 608
- De Pere Middle2.2 mi · 690
- Westwood Elementary2.2 mi · 623
- De Pere High2.3 mi · 1,466
- Foxview Intermediate2.3 mi · 673
- Dickinson Elementary2.3 mi · 523
Frequently asked questions
About Susie C Altmayer ElementaryHow large is Susie C Altmayer Elementary?
Susie C Altmayer Elementary enrolls approximately 525 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does Susie C Altmayer Elementary serve?
Susie C Altmayer Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Susie C Altmayer Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Susie C Altmayer Elementary is approximately 14.2:1 (37 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Susie C Altmayer Elementary?
At Susie C Altmayer Elementary, the student body is approximately 76% White, 11% Hispanic, 2% Black, 3% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Susie C Altmayer Elementary public or private?
Susie C Altmayer Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by De Pere School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.