Tenor High

Tenor High operates as a medium-sized high school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, operated by Seeds of Health Inc. Current enrollment sits at 651 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 475 students per school, that is 37% bigger than typical.

Within Seeds of Health Inc, which oversees 3 schools and 1,287 students, Tenor High is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Tenor High reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 60% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 29% Black, 8% White. By comparison, Milwaukee County as a whole is about 17% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.1:1. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Tenor High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 37.0%; actual is 19.4%, a gap of -17.6 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Milwaukee County shows 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. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), Tenor High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Project STAY-Supporting Teachers and Youth, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Tenor High comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 20.1%.

Tenor High operates from an inner-city location. Tenor High is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 187%: 227 students in 2018 compared to 651 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 56% to 60% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 24.1:1 today.

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