Veritas High

Veritas High, a compact secondary school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Seeds of Health Inc, works with 256 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 46% smaller than the state mean of about 475.

Seeds of Health Inc comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,287 students; Veritas High is among them.

In terms of who attends, Veritas High records that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 8% White. The wider county runs roughly 17% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.6:1, putting Veritas High higher than the state norm the norm. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Milwaukee County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Veritas High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.6%; this one delivers 31.0%.

Zooming out to the county, Milwaukee County reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,435 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), Veritas High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Pulaski High, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Veritas High ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 16.8%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. Veritas High operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 252 students in 2018 compared to 256 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 today.

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