Lowell Elementary

As a mid-sized elementary school in Waukesha, Wisconsin, Lowell Elementary enrolls 347 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Waukesha School District.

Waukesha School District comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 10,922 students; Lowell Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lowell Elementary reports that 61% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 23% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 7% Black. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Lowell Elementary lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Lowell Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Waukesha County runs at roughly 17%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Lowell Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.5%, the actual is 47.0%, a residual of +3.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Waukesha County shows median household earnings sit near $106,076, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lowell Elementary is one of 113 public schools in Waukesha County (combined enrollment of about 60,032 students).

Nearest neighbor: North High, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lowell Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lowell Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 52.2%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 29%: 269 students in 2018 compared to 347 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 17% to 23% over that span.

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