Southwood Glen Elementary

Southwood Glen Elementary is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Franklin, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Franklin Public School District, teacheing 370 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Franklin Public School District, which oversees 8 schools and 4,666 students, Southwood Glen Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Southwood Glen Elementary lists that White students make up the majority at 62%. The remainder breaks down as 16% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 51% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Southwood Glen Elementary records 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Milwaukee County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Southwood Glen Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.4%, the actual is 70.0%, a residual of +1.7 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Milwaukee County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $64,435 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), Southwood Glen Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Franklin High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Southwood Glen Elementary at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 55.4%.

Southwood Glen Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Southwood Glen Elementary has fell 5%, going from 389 students in 2018 to 370 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 77% to 62%. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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