Hawley Environmental School

Hawley Environmental School is a reasonably sized elementary school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Milwaukee School District. The school caters to 299 students in grades pre-K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hawley Environmental School logs that the largest single group is Black, at 73% of enrollment; the rest consists of 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% White. By comparison, Milwaukee County as a whole is about 26% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Roughly 85% of students at Hawley Environmental School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Milwaukee County's rate of about 64%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hawley Environmental School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 11.2%, a residual of -14.5 points.

Across the wider county, Milwaukee County reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,435 per year, 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 Hawley Environmental School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Woodlands School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hawley Environmental School at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 32.4%.

Hawley Environmental School operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 17%: 359 students in 2018 compared to 299 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment expanded from 64% to 73% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 24.2:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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