Oak Creek East Middle

As a high-enrollment junior high in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Oak Creek East Middle works with 935 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Oak Creek-Franklin Joint School District. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 145% above typical.

Across the 11 schools in Oak Creek-Franklin Joint School District (6,554 students total), Oak Creek East Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Oak Creek East Middle reports that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 19% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian, 4% Black. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Milwaukee County's rate of about 64%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Oak Creek East Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.0%, the actual is 62.2%, a residual of +0.2 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Milwaukee County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,435 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Milwaukee County runs 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), of which Oak Creek East Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Shepard Hills Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Oak Creek East Middle at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 59.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Oak Creek East Middle's enrollment has ticked down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 983 (now 935). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 76% to 66%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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