Dr Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy

Located at 4030 N 29th St, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Dr Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy is a middle-of-the-pack four-year high school that hosts 608 students (grades 6 through 12), part of Dr Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy Inc. Enrollment runs roughly 28% larger than the state mean of about 475.

Dr Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy Inc is the operating authority for Dr Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Looking at the student body, Dr Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy reports that nearly all students (96%) are Black; the rest looks like 2% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Dr Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 60.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.6:1 average. Roughly 79% of students at Dr Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Milwaukee County (around 64%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Dr Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 29.2%; this one comes in at 14.3%, -14.9 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Milwaukee County shows median household income runs about $64,435, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Milwaukee County runs 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), of which Dr Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy is one.

Franklin Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Dr Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 12.5%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. Dr Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 112%: 287 students in 2018 compared to 608 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 60.8:1 today.

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