Maple Tree Elementary

Maple Tree Elementary, a close-knit elementary campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, operated by Milwaukee School District, educates 235 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 27% leaner than typical.

Milwaukee School District runs 155 schools in total, collectively educating 65,835 students. Maple Tree Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Maple Tree Elementary lists that the largest single group is Black, at 79% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 2% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

Looking at school resources, Maple Tree Elementary lists 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Milwaukee County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Maple Tree Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.4%, the actual is 13.4%, a residual of -6.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Milwaukee County shows the typical household earns roughly $64,435 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), Maple Tree Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Bruce Elementary, roughly 1.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Maple Tree Elementary. On composite proficiency, Maple Tree Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 14.6%.

Maple Tree Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Looking at the recent track record. Maple Tree Elementary's enrollment has shrank 15% since 2018, when it stood at 276 (now 235). Hispanic enrollment moved from 4% to 9% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.9:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

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