La Causa Charter School

As a sizable elementary campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, La Causa Charter School instructs 558 students from grades pre-K through 8, part of Milwaukee School District. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so La Causa Charter School sits 73% above that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, La Causa Charter School lists that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 3% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

On the resource side, La Causa Charter School logs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 87% of students at La Causa Charter School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Milwaukee County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, La Causa Charter School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.2%, the actual is 18.3%, a residual of -6.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, 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 roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), La Causa Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Allen-Field Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around La Causa Charter School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), La Causa Charter School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 21.6%.

The school occupies a downtown site. As a public charter, La Causa Charter School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at La Causa Charter School has contracted 29%, going from 788 students in 2018 to 558 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 112.6:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.