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Maple Grove Elementary
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Maple Grove Elementary
Maple Grove Elementary is a mid-sized K-5 school in Greenfield, Wisconsin, run under Greenfield School District. The school enrolls 427 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 32% larger than the state mean of about 323.
Greenfield School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,380 students. Maple Grove Elementary is one of those campuses.
Demographically, Maple Grove Elementary lists that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 30% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 7% Asian, 6% Black.
On the resource side, On paper, Maple Grove Elementary has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Maple Grove Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Milwaukee County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Maple Grove Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.2%; this one delivers 37.1%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Milwaukee County) shows that median household earnings sit near $64,435, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), Maple Grove Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Whitman Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Maple Grove Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 37.5%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Maple Grove Elementary has held roughly steady, going from 418 students in 2018 to 427 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 56% to 45%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.
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