McKinley Elementary

McKinley Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary campus in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, operated by Wauwatosa School District. The school hosts 388 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 20% bigger than typical.

Wauwatosa School District runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 6,704 students. McKinley Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, McKinley Elementary reports that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 9% Black, 9% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 51% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, McKinley Elementary lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Milwaukee County's rate of about 64%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, McKinley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.4%, the actual is 70.8%, a residual of +1.4 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Milwaukee County indicate 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%. In all, Milwaukee County runs 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), of which McKinley Elementary is one.

Longfellow Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around McKinley Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), McKinley Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 57.1%.

McKinley Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. McKinley Elementary's enrollment has decreased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 398 (now 388). Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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