Hi-Mount Elementary

Hi-Mount Elementary, a small elementary school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Milwaukee School District, teaches 166 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 49% smaller than the state mean of about 323.

Within Milwaukee School District, which oversees 155 schools and 65,835 students, Hi-Mount Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Hi-Mount Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (86%). The remainder reads as 9% multiracial, 2% White, 2% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Hi-Mount Elementary has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 26.8:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 93% of students at Hi-Mount Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Milwaukee County (around 64%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hi-Mount Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.4%, the actual is 13.1%, a residual of -7.3 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Milwaukee County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $64,435 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Hi-Mount Elementary is one of 284 public schools in Milwaukee County (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students).

Nearest neighbor: Milwaukee French Immersion, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hi-Mount Elementary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 20.4%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hi-Mount Elementary has declined 31%, going from 242 students in 2018 to 166 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 26.8:1 in 2025.

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