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Public school / Primary

Ronald C Dunlap Elementary School

Appleton, Wisconsin

NCES ID
550039000059
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Ronald C Dunlap Elementary School is a public primary school in Appleton, Wisconsin, run by Appleton Area School District. It enrols 382 students — the 53680th largest of 2,264 public schools in Wisconsin.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

382students

53680th nationally, tied with 125

Teachers

31.0FTE

39703rd nationally, tied with 2,128

Students per teacher

12.3students

22742nd nationally, tied with 836

Free or reduced-price lunch

72.5%percent

28641st nationally, tied with 89

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Appleton Area School District

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1North High1,561 students
  2. 2East High1,306 students
  3. 3West High1,157 students
  4. 4Appleton Community 4k750 students
  5. 5Wisconsin Connections Academy718 students
  6. 6Huntley Elementary649 students
  7. 7Madison Middle612 students
  8. 8Ferber Elementary611 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Wisconsin median across 2,264 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+12.4%
  • Teachers+34.8%
  • Students per teacher−9.6%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+79.9%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.