Horlick High

Horlick High is one of the sizable secondary schools in Racine, Wisconsin, run under Racine Unified School District, with 1,212 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 155% above the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 475 students.

Racine Unified School District comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 16,557 students; Horlick High is among them.

On the student-mix side, Horlick High records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 29% White, 27% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Racine County as a whole is about 15% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Horlick High lists 89 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.6:1, putting Horlick High tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Racine County (around 48%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Horlick High is in the bottom 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 36.6%; Horlick High posts 13.8%, -22.9 points below that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Racine County put the typical household earns roughly $78,096 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Horlick High is one of 54 public schools in Racine County (combined enrollment of about 25,901 students).

Wadewitz Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Horlick High at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 26.2%.

Horlick High operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Horlick High has decreased 27%, going from 1,654 students in 2018 to 1,212 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 40% to 29% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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