Keefe Avenue Elementary

Located at 1618 W Keefe Ave, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Keefe Avenue Elementary is an one-room-style K-5 school that teaches 125 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Milwaukee School District. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 61% leaner than typical.

Keefe Avenue Elementary is one of 155 schools operated by Milwaukee School District, a district that educates 65,835 students overall.

On demographics, Keefe Avenue Elementary shows that 86% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school records 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 26% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. The state averages about 14.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Milwaukee County (around 64%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Keefe Avenue Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 18.3%; this one delivers 10.6%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Milwaukee County shows median household income runs about $64,435, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Keefe Avenue Elementary is one of 284 public schools in Milwaukee County (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students).

Nearest neighbor: Andrew S Douglas Middle, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Keefe Avenue Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Keefe Avenue Elementary at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 11.0%.

Keefe Avenue Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 49%: 247 students in 2018 compared to 125 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 95% to 86% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 27.4:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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