Burlington High School

Located at 400 McCanna Pkwy, in Burlington, Wisconsin, Burlington High School is a big senior high that teaches 880 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Burlington Area School District. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 475 students each, so Burlington High School sits 85% larger than that benchmark.

Burlington Area School District runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 3,035 students. Burlington High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Burlington High School logs that White students make up the majority at 78%. The remainder looks like 16% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Racine County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Burlington High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.1%, the actual is 47.2%, a residual of -12.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Racine County indicate median household income runs about $78,096, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Burlington High School is one of 54 public schools in Racine County (combined enrollment of about 25,901 students).

Karcher Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Burlington High School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 65.5%.

Burlington High School operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Burlington High School has edged down 19%, going from 1,080 students in 2018 to 880 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 84% to 78% across the same window.

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