Bryant Elementary

Set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Bryant Elementary is a modestly sized primary school, operated by Milwaukee School District. It caters to 212 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 34% smaller than typical.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bryant Elementary records that 84% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 26% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Bryant Elementary reports 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.5:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Milwaukee County's rate of about 64%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bryant Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.8%; this one delivers 17.2%.

In the area at large, census data for Milwaukee County shows the typical household earns roughly $64,435 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), Bryant Elementary is one campus in the mix.

James Madison Academic Campus is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Bryant Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 16.0%.

Bryant Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. Bryant Elementary's enrollment has declined 6% since 2018, when it stood at 225 (now 212). The Black share of enrollment shrank from 91% to 84% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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