Wadewitz Elementary

Wadewitz Elementary operates as a heavily attended elementary-level community in Racine, Wisconsin, run under Racine Unified School District. Current enrollment sits at 517 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Wadewitz Elementary sits 60% larger than that benchmark.

Within Racine Unified School District, which oversees 27 schools and 16,557 students, Wadewitz Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Wadewitz Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 29% Black, 14% White, 9% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Around 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Racine County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wadewitz Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.4%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Racine County indicate the typical household earns roughly $78,096 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Racine County runs 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,901 students), of which Wadewitz Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Horlick High, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wadewitz Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wadewitz Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 28.1%.

Wadewitz Elementary operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Wadewitz Elementary's enrollment has shrank 14% since 2018, when it stood at 598 (now 517). The White share of enrollment shrank from 21% to 14% over that span.

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