Les Paul Middle

Les Paul Middle operates as a reasonably sized middle-grades school in Waukesha, Wisconsin, run under Waukesha School District. Current enrollment sits at 547 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 44% above the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 381 students.

Waukesha School District runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 10,922 students. Les Paul Middle is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Les Paul Middle reports that 63% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 36% 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, Waukesha County runs at roughly 17%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Les Paul Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.8%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Waukesha County shows median household earnings sit near $106,076, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Waukesha County runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,032 students), of which Les Paul Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: La Casa de Esperanza Charter School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Les Paul Middle comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 47.8%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Les Paul Middle has shrank 23%, going from 707 students in 2018 to 547 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 20% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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