Emerson Elementary

Emerson Elementary is a tight-knit primary school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, overseen by Milwaukee School District. The school enrolls 187 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Emerson Elementary sits 42% leaner than that benchmark.

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

On demographics, Emerson Elementary logs that nearly all students (84%) are Black; the rest consists of 5% multiracial, 4% White, 3% Hispanic, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 26% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Emerson Elementary has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Milwaukee County's rate of about 64%.

With demographic context factored in, Emerson Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.8%, the actual is 13.4%, a residual of -12.4 points.

Across the wider county, Milwaukee County reports that median household income runs about $64,435, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Milwaukee County runs 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), of which Emerson Elementary is one.

HAPA-Hmong American Peace Academy K3-12 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Emerson Elementary at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 33.1%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 28%: 260 students in 2018 compared to 187 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 24.0:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.