Cooper Elementary

Cooper Elementary is a primary school of medium-sized scale in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, overseen by Milwaukee School District, serveing 447 students in grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 38% bigger than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

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

Looking at the student body, Cooper Elementary records that 35% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 30% White, 18% Black, 9% Asian, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 17% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Milwaukee County (around 64%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cooper Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.6%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Milwaukee County shows median household earnings sit near $64,435, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Cooper Elementary is one of 284 public schools in Milwaukee County (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students).

Nearest neighbor: Reagan College Preparatory High, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cooper Elementary at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 45.2%.

Cooper Elementary operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cooper Elementary has remained close to its prior level, going from 444 students in 2018 to 447 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 44% to 30% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 26.4:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 today.

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