Allen-Field Elementary

As a mid-sized elementary school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Allen-Field Elementary educates 451 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Milwaukee School District. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Allen-Field Elementary sits 40% above that benchmark.

Milwaukee School District comprises 155 schools with combined enrollment of 65,835 students; Allen-Field Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Allen-Field Elementary shows that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest is composed of 12% Black, 3% White, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Roughly 89% of students at Allen-Field Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Milwaukee County's rate of about 64%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Allen-Field Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 15.1%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Milwaukee County indicate median household earnings sit near $64,435, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), Allen-Field Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is La Causa Charter School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Allen-Field Elementary at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 22.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Allen-Field Elementary has shrank 28%, going from 624 students in 2018 to 451 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment shrank from 88% to 82% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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