Career and College Academy

Federal records list Career and College Academy as a high school in Elkhorn, Wisconsin. It had 246 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 6 through 12. That compares with an average of about 475 students for high schools in Wisconsin.

Elkhorn Area School District counts 7 schools and 3,515 students, including Career and College Academy.

White students are 79% of those enrolled at Career and College Academy. The next largest groups are 13% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 2% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 35, compared with 70 nationally.

The school has 9.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 25.8 students per teacher. The average for high schools in Wisconsin is 14.6:1, so this school has more students per teacher. The school reported 38% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Public schools in Walworth County average a similar 37%.

American Community Survey estimates for Walworth County show that the median household earns about $80,520 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 32%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Across Walworth County, 46 public schools serve about 14,383 students.

Elkhorn Area High sits about 0.6 miles from Career and College Academy. Inside a five-mile radius, there are 5 other public schools.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Town: Distant: in a town some distance from an urbanized area. The school is a charter school, funded with public money and operated under a charter agreement.

Reported enrollment: 63 (2020-21) and 246 (2024-25). These figures may describe different sets of grades. Students per teacher increased from 15.8 in 2020-21 to 25.8 in 2024-25.

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