Richmond Elementary

Richmond Elementary operates as a moderately sized elementary campus in Sussex, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Richmond School District. Current enrollment sits at 410 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 27% larger than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

Operationally, Richmond Elementary answers to Richmond School District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Richmond Elementary lists that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% Asian, 2% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Richmond Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 1% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Waukesha County (around 17%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Richmond Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.7%, the actual is 81.2%, a residual of +4.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Waukesha County put median household income runs about $106,076, 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 Richmond Elementary is one.

Merton Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Richmond Elementary. On composite proficiency, Richmond Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 79.6%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 5%: 431 students in 2018 compared to 410 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked up from 88% to 92% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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