Andrew S Douglas Middle

Andrew S Douglas Middle is a middle-grades school of one-room-style scale in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, run under Milwaukee School District, hosting 106 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 381 students each, so Andrew S Douglas Middle sits 72% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 155 schools in Milwaukee School District (65,835 students total), Andrew S Douglas Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Andrew S Douglas Middle lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (93%); the rest breaks down as 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Milwaukee County as a whole is about 26% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Andrew S Douglas Middle is in the bottom 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 23.2%; Andrew S Douglas Middle posts 6.5%, -16.8 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, 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 the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), Andrew S Douglas Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Keefe Avenue Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Andrew S Douglas Middle. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Andrew S Douglas Middle ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 12.3%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

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