Summary:
Brown Deer School District in Wisconsin contains exactly one elementary school — Brown Deer Elementary — serving grades PK–5 with 709 students at 5757 W Dean Rd in Brown Deer.
Early grades are this school's clearest strength. Third grade math reached 80.73% proficient, 25.98 percentage points above the state's 54.75%, and third grade ELA hit 62.39% versus 52.08% statewide. Fourth grade math is now essentially at state level (52.78% vs. 52.87%). The school is improving faster than the state overall: its simple average proficiency climbed from 47.65% in 2024–2025 to 53.10% in 2025–2026, a gain of 5.44 points, while the comparable state average rose only 0.79 points. Science and social studies posted the largest year-over-year jumps, up 16.90 and 9.69 points respectively.
Upper grades remain the main concern. Fifth grade math fell to 37.61%, 14.20 points below the state, and dropped 6.01 points from the prior year; fifth grade ELA sits at 44.04%, 9.59 points below state. Science (41.67%) and social studies (56.48%) are still below state averages despite sharp improvement. Chronic absenteeism is 22.3% — better than the district's 30.6% but higher than the state's 17.3% — and 57.97% of students are eligible for free/reduced lunch. Per-student spending is $15,061, with a 15.3 student-teacher ratio. The school's rank improved from the 28th percentile (1 star) in 2023–2024 to the 42nd percentile (2 stars) in 2025–2026, though the Brown Deer School District overall ranks 362 of 432 (16th percentile, 1 star).
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