Hampton Elementary

Set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Hampton Elementary is a low-enrollment K-5 school, operated by Milwaukee School District. It instructs 194 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 40% leaner than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

Hampton Elementary is one of 155 schools operated by Milwaukee School District, a district that educates 65,835 students overall.

Demographically, Hampton Elementary logs that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder reads as 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Milwaukee County as a whole is about 26% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Hampton Elementary shows 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Hampton Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 93% of students at Hampton Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Milwaukee County's rate of about 64%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hampton Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.4%; this one delivers 28.4%.

In the area at large, the surrounding 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Milwaukee County runs 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), of which Hampton Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Obama School of Career and Technical Education, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hampton Elementary. On composite proficiency, Hampton Elementary comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 13.6%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 15%: 227 students in 2018 compared to 194 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 3% to 9% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 in 2025.

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