West High

West High is a four-year high school of heavily attended scale in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Wauwatosa School District, teacheing 986 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 108% larger than the state mean of about 475.

West High is one of 17 schools operated by Wauwatosa School District, a district that caters to 6,704 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, West High logs that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 27% Black, 10% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 5% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, West High has 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Milwaukee County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, West High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.5%; this one delivers 47.9%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Milwaukee County) shows that median household income runs about $64,435, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. West High is one of 284 public schools in Milwaukee County (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students).

Nearest neighbor: Eisenhower Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts West High at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 59.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 8%: 1,075 students in 2018 compared to 986 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 57% to 49% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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