Next Door Charter

Next Door Charter is a very small elementary school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one of the schools in Milwaukee School District. Enrollment totals 120 students across pre-K. Across elementary schools in Wisconsin, the average enrollment is about 323.

Next Door Charter sits within Milwaukee School District, which has 155 schools and 65,835 students.

Black students are 96% of those enrolled at Next Door Charter. Next come 3% Hispanic. That compares with about 26% Black among all Milwaukee County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 8%.

Staffing at Next Door Charter comes to 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.3:1. Elementary schools in Wisconsin have an average ratio of 14.7:1. On the income side, 78% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 64% average for public schools in Milwaukee County.

Looking at the county, Milwaukee County, the median household earns about $64,435 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. Milwaukee County has 284 public schools with about 122,496 students, including Next Door Charter.

A public school about 0.1 miles away, Clarke Street Elementary, is the closest to Next Door Charter. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Next Door Charter.

In the federal locale system, Next Door Charter is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Next Door Charter is one of the charter schools in Wisconsin.

Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, reported enrollment went from 208 to 120. Such a large difference may reflect a change in the grades served. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 34.7:1 to 13.3:1.

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