Richards Elementary
Whitefish Bay, WI · Elementary School · Grades -1-5
Richards Elementary is a elementary school in Whitefish Bay, WI with 665 students enrolled and a 67% proficiency rate. Part of Whitefish Bay School District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Richards Elementary is a elementary school located in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. The school serves 665 students in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.5:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 67% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
1% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Richards Elementary is part of the Whitefish Bay School District in Wisconsin.
How This School Compares
Richards Elementary has 665 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Whitefish Bay School District (715 students). Its 67% proficiency rate is 1 percentage points below the district average of 68%. Compared to the Wisconsin state average of 53%, the school performs 14 points higher.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Richards Elementary has 665 students enrolled in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.5:1.
According to EDFacts data, 67% of students at Richards Elementary meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Richards Elementary is part of the Whitefish Bay School District in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.