Monona Grove Liberal Arts

Monona Grove Liberal Arts is one of the rural-scale senior highs in Monona, Wisconsin, run under Monona Grove School District, with 93 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 475 students per school, that is 80% below typical.

Monona Grove School District runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,672 students. Monona Grove Liberal Arts is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Monona Grove Liberal Arts logs that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Monona Grove Liberal Arts performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.1%, the actual is 49.4%, a residual of -11.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Dane County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,975 per year, about 55% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Monona Grove Liberal Arts is one of 169 public schools in Dane County (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students).

Nearest neighbor: Sennett Middle, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Monona Grove Liberal Arts comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 40.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site. Monona Grove Liberal Arts operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Monona Grove Liberal Arts's enrollment has expanded 127% since 2018, when it stood at 41 (now 93). White enrollment moved from 78% to 85% across the same window.

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