School for Arts and Performance

Set in Wales, Wisconsin, School for Arts and Performance is a rural-scale senior high, one of the schools within Kettle Moraine School District. It educates 114 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 76% leaner than the state mean of about 475.

Across the 12 schools in Kettle Moraine School District (3,361 students total), School for Arts and Performance accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, School for Arts and Performance records that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Waukesha County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.6:1 average. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, School for Arts and Performance sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.0%; this one delivers 76.3%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Waukesha County put median household earnings sit near $106,076, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Waukesha County runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,032 students), of which School for Arts and Performance is one.

The closest other public school is High School of Health Sciences, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), School for Arts and Performance ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 68.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area. School for Arts and Performance is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. School for Arts and Performance's enrollment has edged down 24% since 2018, when it stood at 150 (now 114). Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for School for Arts and Performance typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.