Brown Street Academy

Set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Brown Street Academy is a modestly sized primary school, run under Milwaukee School District. It teaches 245 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 24% smaller than typical.

Milwaukee School District comprises 155 schools with combined enrollment of 65,835 students; Brown Street Academy is among them.

In terms of who attends, Brown Street Academy shows that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 7% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Brown Street Academy has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Brown Street Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Milwaukee County's rate of about 64%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Brown Street Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 18.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 10.3%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Milwaukee County) reports that median household income runs about $64,435, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Brown Street Academy is one of 284 public schools in Milwaukee County (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students).

Nearest neighbor: Shalom High, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Brown Street Academy ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 20.2%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 24%: 322 students in 2018 compared to 245 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 1% to 7% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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