Starms Discovery

Set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Starms Discovery is a cozy K-5 school, overseen by Milwaukee School District. It works with 268 students across grades 1 through 8.

Milwaukee School District comprises 155 schools with combined enrollment of 65,835 students; Starms Discovery is among them.

Looking at the student body, Starms Discovery lists that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Starms Discovery higher than the state norm the norm. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Milwaukee County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Starms Discovery tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 17.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 10.6%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Milwaukee County put median household earnings sit near $64,435, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), Starms Discovery is one campus in the mix.

Starms Early Childhood is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Starms Discovery. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Starms Discovery at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 12.8%.

Starms Discovery operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Starms Discovery has declined 23%, going from 347 students in 2018 to 268 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 96% to 90% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 in 2025.

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