Milwaukee Excellence Charter School

As an intimate 9-12 campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Excellence Charter School hosts 269 students from grades 6 through 12, one of the schools within Milwaukee School District. That puts it 43% below the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 475 students.

Within Milwaukee School District, which oversees 155 schools and 65,835 students, Milwaukee Excellence Charter School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Milwaukee Excellence Charter School reports that 95% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 3% Hispanic. 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, The school reports having 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 46.2:1. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Milwaukee County (around 64%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Milwaukee Excellence Charter School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.7%; this one delivers 13.4%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Milwaukee County shows the typical household earns roughly $64,435 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Milwaukee County runs 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), of which Milwaukee Excellence Charter School is one.

The closest other public school is Pratt Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Milwaukee Excellence Charter School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 21.7%.

Milwaukee Excellence Charter School operates from a city-core location. Milwaukee Excellence Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 6 years. Milwaukee Excellence Charter School's enrollment has edged up 13% since 2018, when it stood at 239 (now 269). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 183.8:1 in 2018 to 53.8:1 today.

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