The School District of Denmark is a public

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Denmark, Wisconsin Denmark is a village in Brown County, Wisconsin, Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 2,123 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Green Bay, Wisconsin, Green Bay Green Bay metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area. ...

serving grades Pre-K through 12. The enrollment for the 2011-2012 school year was 1,498 students. The district was created in 1917.

Governance

The school district is governed by a

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with five members. The district is overseen by a

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, Tony Klaubauf.

Schools

Denmark Early Childhood Center

The Denmark Early Childhood Center houses a half-day four-year-old kindergarten program and a full-day five-year-old kindergarten program. The building was the junior high school until 1993, when a new middle school was constructed. It was then converted to the Early Childhood Center, and more classroom space was added.

Denmark Elementary School

The Denmark Elementary School was built in 1970. It houses first grade through fifth. Denmark Elementary has a

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program. The school's programs and clubs for students include Destination Imagination,

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, Student Council, and Battle of the Books.

Denmark Middle School

Built in 1993, Denmark Middle School houses grades six through eight. In addition to the core classes of English, science, social studies, and math the school offers foreign language, technical education, and music. Denmark Middle School's clubs include

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, Battle of the Books, Destination Imagination, and a forensics team.

Denmark High School

Denmark High School offers Advanced Placement courses including English, calculus, statistics, biology, American history, European history, and Spanish language. The school also works with the

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's &

Northeast Wisconsin Technical College Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC) is a public technical college with multiple locations in Wisconsin. The college serves nine Wisconsin counties with three campuses in Green Bay, Marinette, and Sturgeon Bay and five regional learn ...

's College Credit in High School program, offering four of the available courses. Other options include cooperative education programs, youth apprenticeship programs and online courses. The school has a music program that offers chorus and band to students in the general scholastic program. Denmark High School's sports include baseball, softball, boys' and girls' basketball, wrestling, cross country, track and field, football, boys' and girls' soccer, boys' and girls' golf, and girls' volleyball. The school participates in Division 3 of the

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as a member of the

Bay Conference The Bay Conference is a high school athletics conference made up of eight teams in northeastern Wisconsin, centering primarily around the Green Bay and Fox Valley metropolitan areas. Conference schools are members of the Wisconsin Interscholas ...

Denmark Community School

Denmark Community School, which was created in 2012 and serves grades 8-12, is a public

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that focuses on

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. The school is designed to enhance collaboration and independence, and uses modern technology that allows students to document and analyze

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and create and design professional level multimedia projects.

References

External links

School District of Denmark
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School District A school district is a special-purpose district that operates local public primary and secondary schools in various nations. North America United States In the U.S, most K–12 public schools function as units of local school districts, wh ...

Education in Brown County, Wisconsin School districts established in 1917