North High

North High is a senior high of expansive scale in Waukesha, Wisconsin, run under Waukesha School District, caters to 911 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 475 students per school, that is 92% larger than typical.

Waukesha School District runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 10,922 students. North High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, North High records that 60% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 29% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, North High has 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.6:1, putting North High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Waukesha County runs at roughly 17%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, North High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 51.2%; actual is 35.5%, a gap of -15.6 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Waukesha County) logs that median household earnings sit near $106,076, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. North High is one of 113 public schools in Waukesha County (combined enrollment of about 60,032 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lowell Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, North High comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 52.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North High has declined 22%, going from 1,175 students in 2018 to 911 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 19% to 29%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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