Enrollment
256
Elementary
DISTRICT 370 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MILWAUKEE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550960001183
Hartford Avenue Elementary
2227 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53211 · (414) 906-4700 · Milwaukee County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL256 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 4% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.8:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
238 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 42%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 22 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 20 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 26 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 21 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 15 | 6% |
| Grade 4 | 23 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 30 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 27 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 32 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 40 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (20) is 50% smaller than its 8th grade class (40).
Student demographics
29%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
10.4%
WI avg 53.1% . +0.2pp since 2023
Math
7.1%
WI avg 54.8% . +1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 10 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 7 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 10.4% | 7.1% |
| 2023-24 | 10.2% | 5.5% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
11.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.6%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 11% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Hartford Avenue Elementary
Hartford Avenue Elementary's state test result (11.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hartford Avenue Elementary this school | 256 | 93.0% | 11.2% |
| Townsend Street Elementary Milwaukee | 257 | 93.8% | 6.3% |
| King Jr Elementary Milwaukee | 277 | 92.1% | 9.7% |
| Thurston Woods Elementary Milwaukee | 256 | 92.6% | 10.1% |
| Milwaukee Environmental Science Academy Milwaukee | 274 | 94.9% | 8.8% |
| Cass Street Elementary Milwaukee | 312 | 92.6% | 12.7% |
Matched among Wisconsin elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Hartford Avenue Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Milwaukee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 11.2% | #948 of 982 | #141 of 171 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 7.1% | #971 of 992 ▲ 9 | #157 of 174 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 10.4% | #959 of 992 ▲ 3 | #146 of 174 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 256 | #761 of 1,157 | #134 of 180 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.6:1 | #738 of 901 | #75 of 158 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 29.1% | #583 of 901 | #113 of 158 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.0% | #33 of 1,064 | #30 of 174 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -57.6% | #6 of 664 | #2 of 133 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
256
-187 (-42%) vs 2020
-57% since 1990-91, when it was 602
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
was 20.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 256 | 16.4 | 15.6:1 | 93% (238) |
| 2023-24 | 380 | 17.4 | 21.8:1 | 89% (340) |
| 2022-23 | 399 | 18 | 22.1:1 | 93% (370) |
| 2020-21 | 443 | 22 | 20.1:1 | 97% (428) |
| 2017-18 | 604 | 20.6 | 29.3:1 | 80% (481) |
| 2015-16 | 636 | 23 | 27.6:1 | 82% (519) |
| 2010-11 | 676 | 38 | 17.8:1 | 73% (491) |
| 2000-01 | 581 | 35 | 16.6:1 | 69% (401) |
| 1990-91 | 602 | 32 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hartford Avenue Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 58% (604 to 256); teachers down 20% (20.6 to 16.4).
About Hartford Avenue Elementary
Hartford Avenue Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It teaches 256 students in pre-K through 8. By comparison, elementary schools in Wisconsin enroll about 323 students on average.
Hartford Avenue Elementary falls under Milwaukee School District, which has 155 schools enrolling 65,835 students.
By race and ethnicity, Hartford Avenue Elementary is 84% Black. Next come 8% multiracial and 5% Hispanic. The county population is about 26% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 29%.
Classroom staffing at Hartford Avenue Elementary totals 16.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.6:1. The average for elementary schools in Wisconsin is 14.7:1, so this school has more students per teacher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Hartford Avenue Elementary is about 93%. Across public schools in Milwaukee County, the average is 64%.
On the allk12 Grade, Hartford Avenue Elementary lands at F, ahead of 4% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Hartford Avenue Elementary is -9.4 points: 11.2% actual, 20.6% predicted.
In the wider Milwaukee County area, the median household earns about $64,435 a year, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. Across Milwaukee County, 284 public schools serve about 122,496 students.
Of the public schools around it, Hartford Avenue Elementary is closest to Riverside High, about 0.6 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Hartford Avenue Elementary is 7th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Hartford Avenue Elementary is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
Federal data put enrollment at 443 in 2020-21 and 256 in 2024-25; the school may have served different grades in those years. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 20.1:1 to 15.6:1.
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Milwaukee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
926,331
Census ACS
Median income
$64,435
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
284
122,496 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Milwaukee School District
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- King InternationalHigh · 1,308 students
- Obama School of Career and Technical EducationCombined · 1,294 students
- Riverside HighHigh · 1,240 students
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- HAPA-Hmong American Peace Academy K3-12Combined · 1,974 students
- Milwaukee Academy of ScienceCombined · 1,711 students
- Hamilton HighHigh · 1,472 students
- Reagan College Preparatory HighHigh · 1,372 students
- Bruce GuadalupeElementary · 1,364 students
- King InternationalHigh · 1,308 students
Nearby schools
- Riverside High0.6 mi · 1,240
- Gaenslen Elementary0.7 mi · 641
- Shorewood Intermediate0.8 mi · 300
- New Horizons for Learning0.8 mi · 22
- Shorewood High0.8 mi · 589
- Atwater Elementary0.9 mi · 474
Frequently asked questions
About Hartford Avenue ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Hartford Avenue Elementary?
Hartford Avenue Elementary enrolls approximately 256 students in grades PK-08.
Is Hartford Avenue Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Hartford Avenue Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hartford Avenue Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hartford Avenue Elementary is approximately 15.6:1 (16 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hartford Avenue Elementary?
At Hartford Avenue Elementary, the student body is approximately 2% White, 5% Hispanic, 84% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Hartford Avenue Elementary in?
Hartford Avenue Elementary is part of Milwaukee School District.
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