Canterbury Elementary

Canterbury Elementary operates as a mid-sized elementary school in Greendale, Wisconsin, operated by Greendale School District. Current enrollment sits at 350 students spanning grades K through 5.

Greendale School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,546 students; Canterbury Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Canterbury Elementary records that 73% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Milwaukee County as a whole is about 51% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. About 21% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Milwaukee County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Canterbury Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.0%; this one delivers 75.4%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Milwaukee County) records that 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), Canterbury Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Greendale Middle, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Canterbury Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 58.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Canterbury Elementary has showed little movement, going from 353 students in 2018 to 350 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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