Kilbourn Elementary

Set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Kilbourn Elementary is a cozy elementary campus, overseen by Milwaukee School District. It teaches 218 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 33% smaller than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

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

In terms of who attends, Kilbourn Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (86%). Beyond that, the school records 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Kilbourn Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 91% of students are eligible 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 somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Kilbourn Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.6%, the actual is 26.8%, a residual of +5.2 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Milwaukee County) records that median household income runs about $64,435, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Kilbourn Elementary is one of 284 public schools in Milwaukee County (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students).

Nearest neighbor: Rocketship Transformation Prep, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kilbourn Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 16.2%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Kilbourn Elementary's enrollment has contracted 26% since 2018, when it stood at 296 (now 218). The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 4% to 8% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 30.8:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.

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