Rock River Charter School

Rock River Charter School is one of the close-knit high schools in Janesville, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Janesville School District, with 267 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 475 students each, so Rock River Charter School sits 44% smaller than that benchmark.

Janesville School District comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 9,355 students; Rock River Charter School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rock River Charter School reports that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 12% Black, 11% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Rock River Charter School shows 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.7:1. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Rock County's rate of about 47%.

In the surrounding community, Rock County reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,673 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Rock County's 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,542 students), Rock River Charter School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Preschool 4 Janesville, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rock River Charter School.

The campus sits in an urban setting. Rock River Charter School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Rock River Charter School's enrollment has edged up 27% since 2018, when it stood at 211 (now 267). Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 21% to 10%.

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