Mitchell School

Mitchell School, a sizable primary school in Racine, Wisconsin, run under Racine Unified School District, teaches 1,040 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 222% bigger than typical.

Racine Unified School District comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 16,557 students; Mitchell School is among them.

On demographics, Mitchell School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 29% Black, 12% White, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 97 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Racine County's rate of about 48%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mitchell School is in the bottom 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 30.0%; Mitchell School posts 11.1%, -18.9 points below that line.

In the broader community, Racine County reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,096 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Racine County runs 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,901 students), of which Mitchell School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Knapp Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mitchell School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mitchell School at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 18.9%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mitchell School has expanded 157%, going from 405 students in 2018 to 1,040 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 24% to 12% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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