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Which teacher or staff member at Longfellow Elementary deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
773
Elementary
DISTRICT 370 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MILWAUKEE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550960001209
Longfellow Elementary
1021 S 21st St, Milwaukee, WI 53204 · (414) 902-9800 · Milwaukee County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL773 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 6% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.8:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
693 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 42%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 75 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 79 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 98 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 66 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 86 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 8% smaller than its 8th grade class (86).
Student demographics
35%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
17.6%
WI avg 53.1% . -1.4pp since 2023
Math
9.5%
WI avg 54.8% . -1.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 17.6% | 9.5% |
| 2023-24 | 19.0% | 10.6% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
15.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.6%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Longfellow Elementary
Longfellow Elementary's state test result (15.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Longfellow Elementary this school | 773 | 89.7% | 15.5% |
| Mitchell Elementary Milwaukee | 597 | 94.3% | 9.4% |
| Forest Home Elementary Milwaukee | 559 | 91.8% | 17.0% |
| Allen-Field Elementary Milwaukee | 451 | 89.4% | 15.1% |
| Rogers Street Academy Milwaukee | 570 | 93.0% | 19.5% |
| Doerfler Elementary Milwaukee | 609 | 79.0% | 16.0% |
Matched among Wisconsin elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Longfellow Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Milwaukee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.5% | #926 of 982 | #122 of 171 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 9.5% | #950 of 992 ▼ 4 | #140 of 174 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 17.6% | #912 of 992 ▲ 2 | #114 of 174 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 773 | #19 of 1,157 | #3 of 180 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.1:1 | #863 of 901 | #137 of 158 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.0% | #497 of 901 | #100 of 158 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.7% | #63 of 1,064 | #56 of 174 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.5% | #486 of 664 | #99 of 133 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
773
-27 (-3%) vs 2020
+19% since 1990-91, when it was 652
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
was 17.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 773 | 40.5 | 19.1:1 | 90% (693) |
| 2023-24 | 718 | 43.5 | 16.5:1 | 88% (629) |
| 2022-23 | 673 | 47.7 | 14.1:1 | 86% (578) |
| 2020-21 | 800 | 47 | 17.0:1 | 93% (746) |
| 2017-18 | 845 | 41.6 | 20.3:1 | 97% (819) |
| 2015-16 | 912 | 49 | 18.6:1 | 90% (825) |
| 2010-11 | 895 | 54 | 16.6:1 | 95% (853) |
| 2000-01 | 588 | 40 | 14.7:1 | 69% (406) |
| 1990-91 | 652 | 29 | 22.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Longfellow Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (845 to 773); teachers down 3% (41.6 to 40.5).
About Longfellow Elementary
Longfellow Elementary is a large elementary school in Wisconsin, with an address in Milwaukee. Enrollment stands at 773 students, covering pre-K through 8. That is 139% above the average of about 323 students for elementary schools in Wisconsin.
Milwaukee School District is responsible for 155 schools, Longfellow Elementary included, with 65,835 students in all.
At Longfellow Elementary, 79% of students are Hispanic. The remaining students are 17% Black. Census figures show Milwaukee County is about 17% Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 35%.
Teacher count: 40.5 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 19.1:1. Compared with the 14.7:1 average for elementary schools in Wisconsin, this school's ratio is higher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 90%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Milwaukee County is 64%.
Longfellow Elementary holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 6% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Longfellow Elementary would score about 22.6%. It scores 15.5%, 7.2 points below that figure.
American Community Survey estimates for Milwaukee County show that median household income comes to about $64,435, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. The county's public schools total 284, with about 122,496 students.
Mitchell Elementary is about 0.6 miles from Longfellow Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Longfellow Elementary is 5th on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 773, compared with 800 in 2020-21. Federal data show the ratio rising from 17.0:1 to 19.1:1.
The allk12 page for Longfellow Elementary lets the school community talk about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. You can also rate the school on this page.
Milwaukee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
926,331
Census ACS
Median income
$64,435
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
284
122,496 students
Quick facts
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Other Longfellow Elementary schools
36 other US public schools in 18 states are named Longfellow Elementary. Longfellow Elementary is the 3rd largest of the 37.
- Longfellow ElementaryEau Claire, WI · 290 students
- Longfellow ElementarySheboygan, WI · 234 students
- Longfellow ElementaryLong Beach, CA · 904 students
- Longfellow ElementaryBakersfield, CA · 780 students
- Longfellow ElementaryRiverside, CA · 701 students
Nearby schools
- Mitchell Elementary0.6 mi · 597
- Doerfler Elementary0.6 mi · 609
- Kagel Elementary0.6 mi · 292
- South Accelerated Academy0.7 mi · 57
- South Division High0.7 mi · 923
- Forest Home Elementary0.8 mi · 559
Frequently asked questions
About Longfellow ElementaryHow many students attend Longfellow Elementary?
Longfellow Elementary enrolls approximately 773 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Longfellow Elementary serve?
Longfellow Elementary serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Longfellow Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Longfellow Elementary is approximately 19.1:1 (40 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Longfellow Elementary?
Longfellow Elementary reports a student body of 1% White, 79% Hispanic, 17% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Longfellow Elementary in?
Longfellow Elementary is part of Milwaukee School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.