Rocketship Transformation Prep

Rocketship Transformation Prep operates as a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, run under Rocketship Education Wisconsin Inc. Current enrollment sits at 313 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Within Rocketship Education Wisconsin Inc, which oversees 2 schools and 731 students, Rocketship Transformation Prep is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Rocketship Transformation Prep reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (90%). Beyond that, the school reports 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Milwaukee County as a whole is about 26% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Rocketship Transformation Prep records 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 32.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Around 24% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Milwaukee County (around 64%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Rocketship Transformation Prep falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 63.1%; this one comes in at 18.8%, -44.3 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, census data for Milwaukee County shows median household income runs about $64,435, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Rocketship Transformation Prep is one of 284 public schools in Milwaukee County (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students).

Kilbourn Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Rocketship Transformation Prep comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 18.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site. Rocketship Transformation Prep operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.