Racine County Detention Center

Racine County Detention Center, a very small K-12 campus in Racine, Wisconsin, part of Racine Unified School District, instructs 20 students, covering grades 1 through 12. That puts it 93% below the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 272 students.

Racine Unified School District comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 16,557 students; Racine County Detention Center is among them.

On demographics, Racine County Detention Center lists that 45% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 25% White, 25% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Racine County Detention Center has 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.1:1. The state averages around 25.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Racine County indicate the typical household earns roughly $78,096 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Racine County runs 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,901 students), of which Racine County Detention Center is one.

The closest other public school is Knapp Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Racine County Detention Center.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

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