Morse Mid

Located at 6700 N 80th St, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Morse Mid is a reasonably sized middle-grades school that works with 383 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Milwaukee School District.

Across the 155 schools in Milwaukee School District (65,835 students total), Morse Mid accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Morse Mid lists that Black students make up the majority at 71%. The remainder is composed of 12% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Morse Mid higher than the state norm the norm. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Milwaukee County's rate of about 64%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Morse Mid sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 28.8%; actual is 13.5%, a gap of -15.3 points.

Zooming out to the 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%. In all, Milwaukee County runs 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), of which Morse Mid is one.

Milwaukee Sign Language Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Morse Mid. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Morse Mid ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 17.8%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Morse Mid has climbed 25%, going from 306 students in 2018 to 383 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 81% to 71%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 today.

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