Ronald Reagan Elementary

Located at 4225 S Calhoun Rd, in New Berlin, Wisconsin, Ronald Reagan Elementary is a high-enrollment K-5 school that serves 669 students (grades pre-K through 6), one of the schools within New Berlin School District. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 107% bigger than typical.

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

On demographics, Ronald Reagan Elementary shows that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 9% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Ronald Reagan Elementary reports 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. About 10% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ronald Reagan Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.8%, the actual is 81.0%, a residual of +9.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Waukesha County shows the typical household earns roughly $106,076 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Ronald Reagan Elementary is one of 113 public schools in Waukesha County (combined enrollment of about 60,032 students).

The closest other public school is New Berlin West Middle/High, roughly 1.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ronald Reagan Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ronald Reagan Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 69.3%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 9%: 616 students in 2018 compared to 669 in 2025.

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