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Muskego High
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Muskego High
Muskego High, a roomy four-year high school in Muskego, Wisconsin, part of Muskego-Norway School District, serves 1,634 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 475 students each, so Muskego High sits 244% larger than that benchmark.
Muskego High is one of 6 schools operated by Muskego-Norway School District, a district that teaches 4,602 students overall.
Looking at the student body, Muskego High shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%); the rest reads as 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Waukesha County as a whole.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 93 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.6:1, putting Muskego High higher than the state norm the norm. About 5% 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Muskego High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 74.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 66.2%.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Waukesha County) shows that median household income runs about $106,076, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Muskego High is one of 113 public schools in Waukesha County (combined enrollment of about 60,032 students).
Bay Lane Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Muskego High comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 75.4%.
Muskego High operates from a low-density location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Muskego High has stayed largely flat, going from 1,631 students in 2018 to 1,634 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 91% to 86% across the same window.
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