Rocketship Southside Community Prep

Rocketship Southside Community Prep operates as a medium-sized primary school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Rocketship Education Wisconsin Inc. Current enrollment sits at 418 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 29% above the state mean of about 323.

Across the 2 schools in Rocketship Education Wisconsin Inc (731 students total), Rocketship Southside Community Prep accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Rocketship Southside Community Prep records that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder is composed of 7% Black, 3% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Milwaukee County's rate of about 64%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Rocketship Southside Community Prep sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 57.5%; actual is 29.1%, a gap of -28.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Milwaukee County) logs that median household income runs about $64,435, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Milwaukee County runs 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), of which Rocketship Southside Community Prep is one.

Veritas High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Rocketship Southside Community Prep comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 18.3%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. Rocketship Southside Community Prep is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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