Clement Avenue Elementary

As a tight-knit elementary-level community in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Clement Avenue Elementary teaches 238 students from grades pre-K through 8, run under Milwaukee School District. Enrollment runs roughly 26% leaner than the state mean of about 323.

Clement Avenue Elementary is one of 155 schools operated by Milwaukee School District, a district that caters to 65,835 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Clement Avenue Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 29% White, 13% multiracial, 11% Black, 4% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

In terms of school funding signals, Clement Avenue Elementary reports 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Clement Avenue Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 78% of students at Clement Avenue Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Milwaukee County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Clement Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.0%, the actual is 33.1%, a residual of +3.2 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Milwaukee County) records that the typical household earns roughly $64,435 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), Clement Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Bay View Montessori School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Clement Avenue Elementary comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.9%.

Clement Avenue Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clement Avenue Elementary has shrank 48%, going from 462 students in 2018 to 238 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 39% to 29%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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