Ninety-Fifth Street Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Ninety-Fifth Street Elementary educates 428 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Milwaukee School District. That puts it 33% larger than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

Milwaukee School District comprises 155 schools with combined enrollment of 65,835 students; Ninety-Fifth Street Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Ninety-Fifth Street Elementary lists that the largest single group is Black, at 61% of enrollment; the rest looks like 12% Hispanic, 10% White, 10% multiracial, 7% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 26% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Ninety-Fifth Street Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Milwaukee County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ninety-Fifth Street Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.6%; this one delivers 24.8%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Milwaukee County put 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%. Ninety-Fifth Street Elementary is one of 284 public schools in Milwaukee County (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students).

The closest other public school is Milwaukee German Immersion, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ninety-Fifth Street Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 39.4%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Ninety-Fifth Street Elementary's enrollment has grew 5% since 2018, when it stood at 409 (now 428). The White share of enrollment declined from 17% to 10% over that span.

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