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Susie C Altmayer Elementary
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat 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.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Susie C Altmayer Elementary
Susie C Altmayer Elementary operates as a well-populated elementary school in De Pere, Wisconsin, overseen by De Pere School District. Current enrollment sits at 525 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 63% larger than typical.
De Pere School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 4,485 students; Susie C Altmayer Elementary is among them.
Looking at the student body, Susie C Altmayer Elementary shows that 76% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
In terms of school funding signals, Susie C Altmayer Elementary records 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 24% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Brown County (around 39%), the school's rate is south of typical.
With demographic context factored in, Susie C Altmayer Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 62.8%; Susie C Altmayer Elementary posts 78.9%, +16.1 points above that line.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Brown County indicate median household income runs about $79,649, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Brown County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,385 students), of which Susie C Altmayer Elementary is one.
Heritage Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Susie C Altmayer Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 70.1%.
Susie C Altmayer Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.
Looking at the recent track record. Susie C Altmayer Elementary's enrollment has fell 19% since 2018, when it stood at 649 (now 525). Over the same period, the White share fell from 88% to 76%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.
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