East High

As an expansive senior high in Madison, Wisconsin, East High serves 1,643 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Madison Metropolitan School District. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 475 students each, so East High sits 246% bigger than that benchmark.

Madison Metropolitan School District runs 53 schools in total, collectively educating 25,155 students. East High is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, East High shows that the most-represented group is White (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 25% Hispanic, 23% Black, 10% multiracial, 7% Asian. By comparison, Dane County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 106 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.6:1, putting East High higher than the state norm the norm. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Dane County's rate of about 32%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, East High is in the bottom 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 42.1%; East High posts 25.7%, -16.4 points below that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Dane County indicate the typical household earns roughly $89,975 per year, roughly 55% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dane County's 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), East High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Emerson Elementary, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around East High. On composite proficiency, East High comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.9%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 1,637 students in 2018 compared to 1,643 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 21% to 25% across the same window.

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