Memorial High

Memorial High is one of the high-enrollment high schools in Beloit, Wisconsin, run under Beloit School District, with 1,305 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 475 students per school, that is 175% above typical.

Beloit School District comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 4,958 students; Memorial High is among them.

On demographics, Memorial High logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 31% White, 21% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Rock County as a whole is about 10% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Memorial High reports 89 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. The state averages about 14.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 62% of students at Memorial High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Rock County (around 47%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Memorial High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 39.7%; actual is 17.9%, a gap of -21.8 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Rock County shows median household income runs about $75,673, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Rock County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,542 students), of which Memorial High is one.

Beloit Virtual School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Memorial High comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 25.1%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 26%: 1,768 students in 2018 compared to 1,305 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 38% to 31% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.