King International

As a sizable senior high in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, King International serves 1,308 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Milwaukee School District. That puts it 175% 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. King International is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, King International logs that 61% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest consists of 14% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 9% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Milwaukee County as a whole is about 26% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.6:1 average. Roughly 67% of students at King International qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, King International performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.5%, the actual is 25.7%, a residual of -10.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Milwaukee County indicate the typical household earns roughly $64,435 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. King International is one of 284 public schools in Milwaukee County (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students).

Barbee Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), King International ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 11.6%.

King International operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at King International has contracted 14%, going from 1,520 students in 2018 to 1,308 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 18% to 9% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 today.

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