Heyer Elementary

Heyer Elementary is an elementary campus of middle-of-the-pack scale in Waukesha, Wisconsin, run under Waukesha School District, serveing 328 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Waukesha School District runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 10,922 students. Heyer Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Heyer Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 38% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Waukesha County as a whole is about 6% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 54% of students at Heyer Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Waukesha County's rate of about 17%.

After controlling for student poverty, Heyer Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.5%, the actual is 53.0%, a residual of +8.4 points.

In the broader community, census data for Waukesha County shows median household income runs about $106,076, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Waukesha County's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,032 students), Heyer Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Waukesha Engineering Preparatory Academy, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Heyer Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.4%.

Heyer Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Heyer Elementary has shrank 19%, going from 406 students in 2018 to 328 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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