North Division High

North Division High is one of the modestly sized 9-12 campuss in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, overseen by Milwaukee School District, with 346 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 475 students each, so North Division High sits 27% below that benchmark.

North Division High is one of 155 schools operated by Milwaukee School District, a district that instructs 65,835 students overall.

On the student-mix side, North Division High shows that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

In terms of school funding signals, North Division High logs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Milwaukee County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, North Division High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 21.6%; this one comes in at 1.4%, -20.2 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Milwaukee County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $64,435 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. North Division High is one of 284 public schools in Milwaukee County (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students).

Nearest neighbor: Grant Gordon Learning Center, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), North Division High ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 17.1%.

North Division High operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. North Division High's enrollment has contracted 3% since 2018, when it stood at 355 (now 346). The Black share of enrollment declined from 97% to 90% over that span.

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