Grantosa Drive Elementary

Grantosa Drive Elementary is an elementary campus of expansive scale in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Milwaukee School District, works with 506 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Grantosa Drive Elementary sits 57% above that benchmark.

Across the 155 schools in Milwaukee School District (65,835 students total), Grantosa Drive Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Grantosa Drive Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (88%). Beyond that, the school shows 4% multiracial, 3% Asian, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 26% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Grantosa Drive Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Milwaukee County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Grantosa Drive Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.4%; this one delivers 10.8%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Milwaukee County put median household income runs about $64,435, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), Grantosa Drive Elementary is one campus in the mix.

HAPA-Hmong American Peace Academy K3-12 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Grantosa Drive Elementary. On composite proficiency, Grantosa Drive Elementary comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 20.8%.

Grantosa Drive Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Grantosa Drive Elementary's enrollment has edged down 20% since 2018, when it stood at 629 (now 506). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

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