Jackson Elementary

Jackson Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, overseen by Milwaukee School District. The school hosts 206 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 36% smaller than typical.

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

Looking at the student body, Jackson Elementary reports that nearly all students (91%) are Black. The remainder looks like 3% multiracial. By comparison, Milwaukee County as a whole is about 26% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Milwaukee County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Jackson Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 17.5%; this one delivers 8.4%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Milwaukee County put 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%. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), Jackson Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hopkins Lloyd Community School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jackson Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jackson Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 13.4%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jackson Elementary has decreased 29%, going from 292 students in 2018 to 206 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 97% to 91%. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.5:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

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