Woodlands School

Woodlands School is one of the mid-tier primary schools in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Woodlands School Inc, with 313 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8.

Woodlands School Inc comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 488 students; Woodlands School is among them.

Demographically, Woodlands School lists that the largest single group is Black at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 25% White, 22% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 26% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Woodlands School records 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.3:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 19% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Milwaukee County (around 64%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Woodlands School is in the bottom 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 66.3%; Woodlands School posts 48.5%, -17.8 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Milwaukee County put median household earnings sit near $64,435, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Milwaukee County runs 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), of which Woodlands School is one.

The closest other public school is Hawley Environmental School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 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), Woodlands School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 23.6%.

The school occupies a high-density site. As a public charter, Woodlands School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Woodlands School's enrollment has shrank 11% since 2018, when it stood at 351 (now 313). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 52% to 25%.

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