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Harold S Vincent School of Agricultural Science
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 4% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 21% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Harold S Vincent School of Agricultural Science
Harold S Vincent School of Agricultural Science is one of the moderately sized senior highs in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, overseen by Milwaukee School District, with 611 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 29% bigger than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 475 students.
Milwaukee School District runs 155 schools in total, collectively educating 65,835 students. Harold S Vincent School of Agricultural Science is one of those campuses.
Demographically, Harold S Vincent School of Agricultural Science shows that 82% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 6% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.
In terms of school funding signals, Harold S Vincent School of Agricultural Science shows 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. The state averages about 14.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Milwaukee County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Harold S Vincent School of Agricultural Science is in the bottom 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 20.7%; Harold S Vincent School of Agricultural Science posts 4.4%, -16.3 points below that line.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Milwaukee County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,435 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), Harold S Vincent School of Agricultural Science is one campus in the mix.
Vincent Accelerated Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harold S Vincent School of Agricultural Science. On composite proficiency, Harold S Vincent School of Agricultural Science comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 16.9%.
The school occupies a high-density site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 25%: 820 students in 2018 compared to 611 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 90% to 82% over that span.
Inside the community feed, members of the Harold S Vincent School of Agricultural Science community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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