Grant Elementary

Grant Elementary, a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Kenosha, Wisconsin, operated by Kenosha School District, educates 289 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Kenosha School District comprises 41 schools with combined enrollment of 20,297 students; Grant Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Grant Elementary lists that 39% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 28% White, 23% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Kenosha County as a whole is about 15% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Kenosha County (around 48%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Grant Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.9%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Kenosha County shows the typical household earns roughly $81,239 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Kenosha County runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,114 students), of which Grant Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Jefferson Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Grant Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 25.7%.

Grant Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Grant Elementary has showed little movement, going from 286 students in 2018 to 289 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 42% to 28% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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