Waters Elementary

Waters Elementary is one of the public schools in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. It is a mid-sized elementary school. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 389 students. That puts enrollment 20% above the 323-student average for elementary schools in Wisconsin.

Waters Elementary is one school in Fond du Lac School District, a system of 15 schools with 6,457 students.

White students are 70% of those enrolled at Waters Elementary. The remaining shares are 16% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian, and 2% Black. Census estimates put the White share of Fond du Lac County's population at about 88%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 47, compared with 70 nationally.

Waters Elementary has 27.5 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.1:1. It is about the same as the 14.7:1 average for elementary schools in Wisconsin. The school has 46% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.

In Wisconsin, Waters Elementary is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 62.7% actual against a predicted 49.3%.

In the wider Fond du Lac County area, median household income comes to about $74,275, roughly 22% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Fond du Lac County counts 42 public schools with about 13,230 students.

Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Roberts Elementary, is about 0.6 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Waters Elementary is 1st of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.

For locale, NCES codes Waters Elementary as City: Small.

Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 383 to 389, a small change.

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