Longfellow Middle

Longfellow Middle, an expansive middle-grades school in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, run under Wauwatosa School District, instructs 782 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 105% above the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 381 students.

Across the 17 schools in Wauwatosa School District (6,704 students total), Longfellow Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Longfellow Middle lists that 70% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 12% Black, 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Milwaukee County's rate of about 64%.

With demographic context factored in, Longfellow Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.4%, the actual is 72.9%, a residual of +6.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Milwaukee County indicate median household earnings sit near $64,435, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Milwaukee County runs 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), of which Longfellow Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Roosevelt Elementary, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Longfellow Middle comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 56.8%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Longfellow Middle has held roughly steady, going from 798 students in 2018 to 782 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 17% to 12% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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