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Enrollment
410
Elementary
STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RICHMOND SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550813002262
Richmond Elementary
N56W26530 Richmond Rd, Sussex, WI 53089 · (262) 538-1360 · Waukesha County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL410 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 84% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
26 FTE teachers
STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
1%
6 students
STATE 42%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 32 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 39 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 36 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 45 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 42 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 43 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 47 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 44 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 37 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (39) is 5% larger than its 8th grade class (37).
Student demographics
15%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
80.6%
WI avg 53.1% . -4.5pp since 2023
Math
81.0%
WI avg 54.8% . +0.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 80.6% | 81.0% |
| 2023-24 | 85.1% | 80.4% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
81.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
76.7%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 77% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Richmond Elementary
Richmond Elementary's state test result (81.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond Elementary this school | 410 | 1.5% | 81.2% |
| North Lake Elementary Hartland | 365 | 1.1% | 79.5% |
| Arboretum Elementary Waunakee | 435 | 3.2% | 78.2% |
| Swallow Elementary Hartland | 432 | 2.8% | 88.5% |
| North Greenville Elementary Greenville | 423 | 7.8% | 81.2% |
| Lake Country School Hartland | 447 | 7.6% | 84.1% |
Matched among Wisconsin elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Richmond Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Waukesha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 81.2% | #30 of 982 | #11 of 56 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #51 of 992 ▲ 16 | #15 of 56 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 80.6% | #31 of 992 ▼ 23 | #7 of 56 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 410 | #322 of 1,157 | #34 of 65 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #751 of 901 | #50 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 14.8% | #837 of 901 | #58 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 1.5% | #1,056 of 1,064 | #61 of 63 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.9% | #574 of 664 | #24 of 27 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
410
-17 (-4%) vs 2020
+78% since 1990-91, when it was 230
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 15.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 410 | 26.1 | 15.7:1 | 1% (6) |
| 2023-24 | 412 | 27.2 | 15.2:1 | 2% (7) |
| 2022-23 | 407 | 24.8 | 16.4:1 | 1% (6) |
| 2020-21 | 427 | 27 | 15.8:1 | 1% (6) |
| 2017-18 | 431 | 29.4 | 14.7:1 | 2% (7) |
| 2015-16 | 474 | 28 | 16.9:1 | 1% (7) |
| 2010-11 | 494 | 29 | 17.0:1 | 3% (15) |
| 2000-01 | 407 | 29 | 14.0:1 | 1% (4) |
| 1990-91 | 230 | 15 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Richmond Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (431 to 410); teachers down 11% (29.4 to 26.1).
About Richmond Elementary
In Sussex, Wisconsin, Richmond Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school. The school has 410 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 8. By comparison, elementary schools in Wisconsin enroll about 323 students on average.
The school's district is Richmond School District.
White students are 92% of those enrolled at Richmond Elementary. Other reported shares: 3% Asian, 2% Hispanic, and 2% multiracial. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 15%.
Teacher count: 26.1 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 15.7:1. The average for elementary schools in Wisconsin, 14.7:1, is lower. Roughly 1% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Waukesha County is 17%.
Richmond Elementary earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 84% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 76.7% for Richmond Elementary. The school posts 81.2%, 4.4 points above the prediction.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Waukesha County show that median household income comes to about $106,076, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 49% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 3%. Waukesha County counts 113 public schools with about 60,032 students.
Richmond Elementary is about 2.3 miles from Merton Intermediate, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Richmond Elementary is 5th of 8 on proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes Richmond Elementary as Suburb: Large.
The school shrank from 427 students in 2020-21 to 410 in 2024-25.
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Waukesha County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
411,762
Census ACS
Median income
$106,076
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
113
60,032 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Sussex
- Hamilton HighHigh · 1,577 students
- Templeton MiddleMiddle · 766 students
- Silver Spring IntermediateMiddle · 758 students
- Maple Avenue ElementaryElementary · 457 students
- Woodside ElementaryElementary · 456 students
Other Richmond Elementary schools
11 other US public schools in 9 states are named Richmond Elementary. Richmond Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 12.
- Richmond ElementaryAppleton, WI · 245 students
- Richmond Elementary SchoolPortland, OR · 530 students
- Richmond Elementary SchoolSaint Charles, IL · 385 students
- Richmond Elementary SchoolWyoming, RI · 371 students
- Richmond ElementaryRidgecrest, CA · 364 students
Nearby schools
- Merton Intermediate2.3 mi · 368
- Merton Primary2.4 mi · 526
- Maple Avenue Elementary2.5 mi · 457
- Pewaukee Lake Elementary3.2 mi · 748
- Horizon School3.3 mi · 647
- Asa Clark Middle3.3 mi · 623
Frequently asked questions
About Richmond ElementaryHow large is Richmond Elementary?
Richmond Elementary enrolls approximately 410 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Richmond Elementary serve?
Richmond Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Richmond Elementary?
Approximately 15.7:1 students per teacher at Richmond Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Richmond Elementary?
Student demographics at Richmond Elementary are roughly 92% White, 2% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Richmond Elementary in?
Richmond Elementary is part of Richmond School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.