Honey Creek Elementary

Set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Honey Creek Elementary is a moderately sized K-5 school, one of the schools within Milwaukee School District. It enrolls 393 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 22% bigger than typical.

Milwaukee School District runs 155 schools in total, collectively educating 65,835 students. Honey Creek Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Honey Creek Elementary lists that 47% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 18% White, 17% Black, 10% multiracial, 8% Asian. By comparison, Milwaukee County as a whole is about 17% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 74% of students at Honey Creek Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Milwaukee County (around 64%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Honey Creek Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.5%.

Across the wider county, census data for Milwaukee County shows the typical household earns roughly $64,435 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Milwaukee County runs 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), of which Honey Creek Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Wedgewood Park School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Honey Creek Elementary at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 33.9%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. Honey Creek Elementary is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Honey Creek Elementary has held roughly steady, going from 403 students in 2018 to 393 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 35% to 18% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 33.3:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 in 2025.

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