Alcott Elementary

Located at 3563 S 97th St, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Alcott Elementary is a close-knit primary school that serves 264 students (grades pre-K through 8), overseen by Milwaukee School District.

Across the 155 schools in Milwaukee School District (65,835 students total), Alcott Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Alcott Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 25% White, 17% Black, 15% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Milwaukee County as a whole is about 17% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Alcott Elementary has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 74% of students at Alcott Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Milwaukee County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Alcott Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.1%, the actual is 26.8%, a residual of -5.3 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Milwaukee County) records that median household income runs about $64,435, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), Alcott Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mitchell Elementary, around 1.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Alcott Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Alcott Elementary has ticked down 19%, going from 324 students in 2018 to 264 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 40% to 25% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 29.2:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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