Eighty-First Street Elementary

Set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Eighty-First Street Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary school, part of Milwaukee School District. It caters to 357 students across grades pre-K through 5.

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

On the student-mix side, Eighty-First Street Elementary logs that the largest single group is Black, at 78% of enrollment. Other groups include 7% multiracial, 6% White, 5% Hispanic, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Eighty-First Street Elementary has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.4:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 82% of students at Eighty-First Street Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Milwaukee County (around 64%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Eighty-First Street Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 27.5%; actual is 12.4%, a gap of -15.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Milwaukee County) logs that median household earnings sit near $64,435, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Eighty-First Street Elementary is one of 284 public schools in Milwaukee County (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students).

The closest other public school is Milwaukee School of Languages, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Eighty-First Street Elementary ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 60.9%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Looking at the recent track record. Eighty-First Street Elementary's enrollment has increased 11% since 2018, when it stood at 322 (now 357).

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