Orchard Lane Elementary

Orchard Lane Elementary is an elementary campus of reasonably sized scale in New Berlin, Wisconsin, one of the schools within New Berlin School District, teacheing 453 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Orchard Lane Elementary sits 40% larger than that benchmark.

New Berlin School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 4,334 students. Orchard Lane Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Orchard Lane Elementary records that White students make up the majority at 71%. The remainder breaks down as 10% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 8% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 19% of students at Orchard Lane Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Orchard Lane Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.1%, the actual is 67.6%, a residual of +1.5 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Waukesha County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $106,076 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Waukesha County runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,032 students), of which Orchard Lane Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Nathan Hale High, around 1.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Orchard Lane Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 53.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 5%: 476 students in 2018 compared to 453 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 76% to 71% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.