Kluge Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Kluge Elementary teaches 301 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Milwaukee School District.

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

On the student-mix side, Kluge Elementary shows that 83% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder breaks down as 7% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Milwaukee County (around 64%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Kluge Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 20.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 13.8%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Milwaukee County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,435 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Kluge Elementary is one of 284 public schools in Milwaukee County (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students).

The closest other public school is Rocketship Transformation Prep, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kluge Elementary at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 18.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Kluge Elementary's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 296 (now 301). The Black share of enrollment grew from 77% to 83% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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