Metcalfe Elementary

Metcalfe Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Milwaukee School District. The school instructs 296 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Within Milwaukee School District, which oversees 155 schools and 65,835 students, Metcalfe Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Metcalfe Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (93%). The remainder reads as 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Milwaukee County as a whole is about 26% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Milwaukee County (around 64%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Metcalfe Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 20.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 6.4%.

In the broader 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Milwaukee County runs 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), of which Metcalfe Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Milwaukee College Preparatory School -- 36th Street Campus, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Metcalfe Elementary comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 22.4%.

Metcalfe Elementary operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Metcalfe Elementary's enrollment has grew 3% since 2018, when it stood at 286 (now 296). Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

On allk12, the feed for Metcalfe Elementary typically covers enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.