Milwaukee Spanish Immersion

Milwaukee Spanish Immersion is one of the large K-5 schools in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, overseen by Milwaukee School District, with 605 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Milwaukee Spanish Immersion sits 87% bigger than that benchmark.

Milwaukee Spanish Immersion is one of 155 schools operated by Milwaukee School District, a district that teaches 65,835 students overall.

Demographically, Milwaukee Spanish Immersion lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment. Other groups include 22% Black, 8% White, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Milwaukee Spanish Immersion tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 26.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.9%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Milwaukee County indicate the typical household earns roughly $64,435 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), Milwaukee Spanish Immersion is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Fairview Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Milwaukee Spanish Immersion comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 26.0%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 11%: 680 students in 2018 compared to 605 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 29% to 22%. Class-load math has fell: from 28.8:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 in 2025.

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