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Which teacher or staff member at Mitchell School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
1,040
Elementary
DISTRICT 571 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RACINE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 551236001632
Mitchell School
2701 Drexel Ave, Racine, WI 53403 · (262) 664-6400 · Racine County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,040 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 0% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
97 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
807 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 42%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 36 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 79 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 7% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 7% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 7% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 7% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 172 | 17% |
| Grade 7 | 171 | 16% |
| Grade 8 | 215 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 63% smaller than its 8th grade class (215).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
7.7%
WI avg 53.1% . -3.3pp since 2023
Math
6.2%
WI avg 54.8% . -0.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 8 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 6 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 7.7% | 6.2% |
| 2023-24 | 11.0% | 6.4% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of WI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
11.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.0%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 11% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 30% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Mitchell School
Mitchell School's state test result (11.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mitchell School this school | 1,040 | 77.6% | 11.1% |
| Johnson Elementary Racine | 557 | 74.7% | 16.2% |
| Julian Thomas Elementary Racine | 574 | 81.7% | 15.6% |
| Wadewitz Elementary Racine | 517 | 77.6% | 23.4% |
| Milwaukee Spanish Immersion Milwaukee | 605 | 82.6% | 30.9% |
| Jerstad-Agerholm School Racine | 870 | 83.3% | 14.8% |
Matched among Wisconsin elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Mitchell School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Racine County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 11.1% | #951 of 982 | #31 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 6.2% | #976 of 992 ▲ 1 | #31 of 32 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 7.7% | #978 of 992 ▼ 23 | #32 of 32 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,040 | #4 of 1,157 | #3 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #117 of 901 | #3 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.7% | #172 of 901 | #13 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.6% | #131 of 1,064 | #7 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +156.8% | #2 of 240 | #2 of 12 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,040
-8 (-1%) vs 2020
+114% since 1990-91, when it was 485
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 11.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,040 | 96.5 | 10.8:1 | 78% (807) |
| 2023-24 | 1,093 | 107.6 | 10.2:1 | 82% (893) |
| 2022-23 | 1,083 | 101.7 | 10.7:1 | 80% (870) |
| 2020-21 | 1,048 | 95 | 11.0:1 | 84% (885) |
| 2017-18 | 405 | 33.4 | 12.1:1 | 72% (292) |
| 2015-16 | 411 | 34 | 12.1:1 | 67% (274) |
| 2010-11 | 446 | 36 | 12.4:1 | 76% (338) |
| 2000-01 | 353 | 25 | 14.1:1 | 33% (116) |
| 1990-91 | 485 | 29 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mitchell School.
Since 2017-18: students up 157% (405 to 1,040); teachers up 189% (33.4 to 96.5).
About Mitchell School
Mitchell School is a large elementary school in Racine Unified School District, located in Racine, Wisconsin. The grade span is pre-K through 8, and enrollment is 1,040 students. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Wisconsin) has about 323 students.
Racine Unified School District has 16,557 students in 27 schools, and Mitchell School is one of those schools.
At Mitchell School, Hispanic students make up 51% of the student body. It is also 29% Black, 12% White, and 7% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Racine County is roughly 15% Hispanic. Mitchell School's diversity index is 64%, against a US figure of 70%.
The teaching staff at Mitchell School is 96.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 10.8:1. This ratio sits 3.9 below the 14.7:1 average for elementary schools in Wisconsin. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 78%. The gap from the 48% average for public schools in Racine County is 30 points.
allk12 grades Mitchell School an F. The grade compares the school only with Wisconsin public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Mitchell School scores 18.9 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests: 11.1% actual versus 30.0% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of Wisconsin schools on BeatsExpectations.
Census Bureau estimates for Racine County show that the median household income is $78,096, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Mitchell School is one of 54 public schools in the county.
Nearest public school: Knapp Elementary, about 0.7 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Mitchell School ranks 6th of 6 on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Small. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 1,040, close to the 1,048 recorded in 2020-21.
The discussion area below is open to posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Racine County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
197,532
Census ACS
Median income
$78,096
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
54
25,901 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Racine Unified School District
- Case HighHigh · 1,856 students
- Gifford SchoolElementary · 1,331 students
- Horlick HighHigh · 1,212 students
- Park HighHigh · 1,203 students
- Starbuck International SchoolElementary · 1,133 students
- Jerstad-Agerholm SchoolElementary · 870 students
Other schools in Racine
- Case HighHigh · 1,856 students
- Gifford SchoolElementary · 1,331 students
- Horlick HighHigh · 1,212 students
- Park HighHigh · 1,203 students
- Starbuck International SchoolElementary · 1,133 students
- Jerstad-Agerholm SchoolElementary · 870 students
Other Mitchell schools
One other US public school is named Mitchell. Mitchell School is the largest of the 2.
- Mitchell SchoolMitchell, OR · 47 students
Nearby schools
- Knapp Elementary0.7 mi · 462
- Racine County Detention Center0.7 mi · 20
- Johnson Elementary1.0 mi · 557
- All District 4 Year Old Kindergarten1.2 mi · 103
- Bull Early Education Center1.2 mi · 365
- Park High1.3 mi · 1,203
Frequently asked questions
About Mitchell SchoolHow large is Mitchell School?
Mitchell School enrolls approximately 1,040 students in grades PK-08.
Is Mitchell School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mitchell School is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does Mitchell School have?
Mitchell School employs 97 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Mitchell School?
Student demographics at Mitchell School are roughly 12% White, 51% Hispanic, 29% Black, 0% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Mitchell School in?
Mitchell School is part of Racine Unified School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.