Underwood Elementary

Set in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, Underwood Elementary is a mid-sized elementary campus, run under Wauwatosa School District. It works with 315 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Wauwatosa School District runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 6,704 students. Underwood Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Underwood Elementary records that 38% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 28% Black, 15% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 7% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

In terms of school funding signals, Underwood Elementary logs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Milwaukee County's rate of about 64%.

With demographic context factored in, Underwood Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.1%, the actual is 44.5%, a residual of -7.7 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Milwaukee County put the typical household earns roughly $64,435 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Underwood Elementary is one of 284 public schools in Milwaukee County (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students).

The closest other public school is Vel R Phillips School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Underwood Elementary comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 61.4%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Underwood Elementary has remained close to its prior level, going from 317 students in 2018 to 315 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 52% to 38%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

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