WHS Information Technology

Located at 2525 N Sherman Blvd, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, WHS Information Technology is a modestly sized secondary school that enrolls 402 students (grades 9 through 12), run under Milwaukee School District.

Milwaukee School District comprises 155 schools with combined enrollment of 65,835 students; WHS Information Technology is among them.

Demographically, WHS Information Technology reports that 89% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest is composed of 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 85% of students at WHS Information Technology qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Milwaukee County (around 64%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, WHS Information Technology sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 25.3%; actual is 3.0%, a gap of -22.3 points.

In the broader community, census data for Milwaukee County shows median household income runs about $64,435, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WHS Information Technology is one of 284 public schools in Milwaukee County (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students).

Milwaukee Math and Science Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WHS Information Technology. On composite proficiency, WHS Information Technology comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 21.2%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 35%: 620 students in 2018 compared to 402 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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