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Enrollment
713
Elementary
DISTRICT 370 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MILWAUKEE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550960001265
Vieau Elementary
823 S 4th St, Milwaukee, WI 53204 · (414) 902-6100 · Milwaukee County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL713 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 5% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.8:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
495 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 42%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 42 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 52 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 87 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 86 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 73 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 29% smaller than its 8th grade class (73).
Student demographics
19%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
15.4%
WI avg 53.1% . -7.0pp since 2023
Math
17.9%
WI avg 54.8% . -1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 15.4% | 17.9% |
| 2023-24 | 22.4% | 19.5% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
21.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.0%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Vieau Elementary
Vieau Elementary's state test result (21.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vieau Elementary this school | 713 | 69.4% | 21.6% |
| Doerfler Elementary Milwaukee | 609 | 79.0% | 16.0% |
| Arcadia Elementary Arcadia | 531 | 82.7% | 31.6% |
| Bruce Guadalupe Milwaukee | 1,364 | 72.9% | 47.6% |
| Greenfield Bilingual Milwaukee | 556 | 85.6% | 22.0% |
| Kenosha School of Language (KSOL) Kenosha | 330 | 68.2% | 34.6% |
Matched among Wisconsin elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Vieau Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Milwaukee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.6% | #889 of 982 | #100 of 171 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.9% | #903 of 992 ▼ 2 | #105 of 174 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 15.4% | #922 of 992 ▼ 27 | #118 of 174 ▼ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 713 | #25 of 1,157 | #5 of 180 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.2:1 | #785 of 901 | #93 of 158 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 19.3% | #760 of 901 | #132 of 158 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.4% | #184 of 1,064 | #103 of 174 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.7% | #618 of 664 | #125 of 133 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
713
+5 (+1%) vs 2020
+14% since 1990-91, when it was 627
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
was 17.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 713 | 44 | 16.2:1 | 69% (495) |
| 2023-24 | 684 | 41.6 | 16.4:1 | 91% (622) |
| 2022-23 | 615 | 40.1 | 15.4:1 | 82% (505) |
| 2020-21 | 708 | 40 | 17.7:1 | 90% (640) |
| 2017-18 | 733 | 35.4 | 20.7:1 | 91% (670) |
| 2015-16 | 735 | 22 | 33.4:1 | 87% (638) |
| 2010-11 | 686 | 35 | 19.6:1 | 94% (645) |
| 2000-01 | 640 | 41 | 15.6:1 | 69% (441) |
| 1990-91 | 627 | 35 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Vieau Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (733 to 713); teachers up 24% (35.4 to 44).
About Vieau Elementary
Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Vieau Elementary is a large elementary school. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 713 students in pre-K through 8. The average for elementary schools in Wisconsin is about 323 students, so this school is 121% larger than average.
District-wide, Milwaukee School District has 155 schools and 65,835 students.
The student body at Vieau Elementary is 89% Hispanic. The rest of enrollment is 8% Black. Among all residents of Milwaukee County, the Hispanic share is about 17%. Vieau Elementary's diversity index is 19%, against a US figure of 70%.
At Vieau Elementary, 44 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 16.2:1. On average, elementary schools in Wisconsin have 14.7:1, compared with 16.2:1 here. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 69% of enrollment.
Vieau Elementary is graded D by allk12, scoring above 5% of Wisconsin public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Compared with Wisconsin schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Vieau Elementary's results are 13.4 points below predicted: 21.6% against 35.0%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Milwaukee County show that the median household income is $64,435, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. Besides Vieau Elementary, Milwaukee County has 283 other public schools.
Nearest public school: Bradley Technology High, about 0.1 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Vieau Elementary places 3rd out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 708 in 2020-21 and 713 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.7:1 in 2020-21 to 16.2:1 in 2024-25.
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Milwaukee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
926,331
Census ACS
Median income
$64,435
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
284
122,496 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Milwaukee School District
- HAPA-Hmong American Peace Academy K3-12Combined · 1,974 students
- Hamilton HighHigh · 1,472 students
- Reagan College Preparatory HighHigh · 1,372 students
- King InternationalHigh · 1,308 students
- Obama School of Career and Technical EducationCombined · 1,294 students
- Riverside HighHigh · 1,240 students
Other schools in Milwaukee
- HAPA-Hmong American Peace Academy K3-12Combined · 1,974 students
- Milwaukee Academy of ScienceCombined · 1,711 students
- Hamilton HighHigh · 1,472 students
- Reagan College Preparatory HighHigh · 1,372 students
- Bruce GuadalupeElementary · 1,364 students
- King InternationalHigh · 1,308 students
Nearby schools
- Bradley Technology High0.1 mi · 1,048
- United Community Center Acosta Middle School0.2 mi · 188
- Bruce Guadalupe0.3 mi · 1,364
- Kagel Elementary0.6 mi · 292
- Allen-Field Elementary0.6 mi · 451
- La Causa Charter School0.7 mi · 558
Frequently asked questions
About Vieau ElementaryHow large is Vieau Elementary?
Vieau Elementary enrolls approximately 713 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Vieau Elementary serve?
Vieau Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Vieau Elementary?
Approximately 16.2:1 students per teacher at Vieau Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Vieau Elementary?
Student demographics at Vieau Elementary are roughly 2% White, 89% Hispanic, 8% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Vieau Elementary in?
Vieau Elementary is part of Milwaukee School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.