Brown Deer Elementary

Brown Deer Elementary is one of the heavily attended elementary campuss in Brown Deer, Wisconsin, part of Brown Deer School District, with 709 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 120% larger than the state mean of about 323.

Across the 2 schools in Brown Deer School District (1,613 students total), Brown Deer Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Brown Deer Elementary shows that the largest single group is Black at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 18% Asian, 13% White, 11% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Brown Deer Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.1%, the actual is 44.9%, a residual of +2.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, Milwaukee County reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,435 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Brown Deer Elementary is one of 284 public schools in Milwaukee County (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students).

Brown Deer Middle/High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 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), Brown Deer Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 18.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brown Deer Elementary has decreased 12%, going from 804 students in 2018 to 709 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 26% to 13% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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