Central High

Central High is a high-enrollment four-year high school in Salem, Wisconsin, overseen by Westosha Central UHS School District. The school hosts 1,309 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 475 students each, so Central High sits 176% bigger than that benchmark.

Westosha Central UHS School District is the operating authority for Central High, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On the student-mix side, Central High records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.6:1 average. Around 12% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Kenosha County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Central High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 70.1%; actual is 46.7%, a gap of -23.4 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Kenosha County shows median household income runs about $81,239, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Kenosha County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,114 students), Central High is one campus in the mix.

Salem Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Central High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Central High at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 62.3%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Central High's enrollment has edged up 21% since 2018, when it stood at 1,081 (now 1,309). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Central High community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.