Craig High

Craig High operates as an expansive 9-12 campus in Janesville, Wisconsin, part of Janesville School District. Current enrollment sits at 1,400 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 195% bigger than the state mean of about 475.

Within Janesville School District, which oversees 22 schools and 9,355 students, Craig High is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Craig High shows that White students make up the majority at 73%; the rest breaks down as 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Rock County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Craig High shows 103 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.6:1 average. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Rock County's rate of about 47%.

With demographic context factored in, Craig High is in the bottom 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 54.8%; Craig High posts 34.5%, -20.3 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Rock County indicate median household earnings sit near $75,673, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Rock County's 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,542 students), Craig High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Roosevelt Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Craig High. On composite proficiency, Craig High comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.5%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Craig High's enrollment has ticked down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 1,688 (now 1,400). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 10% to 16%.

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