Harborside Academy

As a reasonably sized high school in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Harborside Academy serves 572 students from grades 6 through 12, one of the schools within Kenosha School District. Compared to the state average of about 475 students per school, that is 20% bigger than typical.

Within Kenosha School District, which oversees 41 schools and 20,297 students, Harborside Academy is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Harborside Academy logs that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 30% Hispanic, 10% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Kenosha County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 47% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Harborside Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.1%, the actual is 49.8%, a residual of +0.7 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Kenosha County put the typical household earns roughly $81,239 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kenosha County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,114 students), Harborside Academy is one campus in the mix.

Reuther Central High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harborside Academy. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Harborside Academy ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 27.9%.

Harborside Academy operates from a downtown location. Harborside Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 5%: 601 students in 2018 compared to 572 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 61% to 52% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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