The REAL Sch

The REAL Sch operates as a mid-sized 9-12 campus in Sturtevant, Wisconsin, part of Racine Unified School District. Current enrollment sits at 538 students spanning grades 6 through 12.

Within Racine Unified School District, which oversees 27 schools and 16,557 students, The REAL Sch is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, The REAL Sch records that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 25% Hispanic, 12% Black, 9% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 72%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, The REAL Sch has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.6:1, putting The REAL Sch higher than the state norm the norm. Around 42% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, The REAL Sch sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 51.9%; actual is 36.9%, a gap of -15.0 points.

In the area at large, Racine County reports that median household income runs about $78,096, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Racine County's 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,901 students), The REAL Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: DOC: Racine Correctional Institution, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around The REAL Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts The REAL Sch at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 32.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 36%: 396 students in 2018 compared to 538 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 56% to 52% across the same window.

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