Oak Creek West Middle

Set in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Oak Creek West Middle is a mid-tier junior high, one of the schools within Oak Creek-Franklin Joint School District. It teaches 531 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 381 students each, so Oak Creek West Middle sits 39% bigger than that benchmark.

Oak Creek-Franklin Joint School District comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 6,554 students; Oak Creek West Middle is among them.

Looking at the student body, Oak Creek West Middle records that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 24% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 7% Black, 7% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Milwaukee County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Milwaukee County (around 64%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Oak Creek West Middle ranks in the top 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 49.8%; Oak Creek West Middle posts 64.0%, +14.2 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Milwaukee County indicate 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%. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), Oak Creek West Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Forest Ridge Elementary, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oak Creek West Middle. On composite proficiency, Oak Creek West Middle comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 56.4%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 8%: 491 students in 2018 compared to 531 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 65% to 51%.

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