UpGrade Media Arts Schools

UpGrade Media Arts Schools operates as a micro-enrollment secondary school in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, overseen by UpGrade Media Arts Schools Inc. Current enrollment sits at 10 students spanning grades 6 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 475 students per school, that is 98% leaner than typical.

UpGrade Media Arts Schools is a school of UpGrade Media Arts Schools Inc, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, UpGrade Media Arts Schools shows that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest looks like 10% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.6:1, putting UpGrade Media Arts Schools tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Milwaukee County indicate the typical household earns roughly $64,435 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), UpGrade Media Arts Schools is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: DOC: Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around UpGrade Media Arts Schools.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. UpGrade Media Arts Schools operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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