Schools · Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI schools
248 public, charter and private schools in Milwaukee. Search by name or narrow by level, type or district.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
D−
Milwaukee’s School Grade: D-
The public schools Milwaukee’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 100% of Wisconsin’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
D-Test scoresD-Graduation
Wisconsin school districts we grade (436)Better than 0%
Lower resultsHigher results
Wisconsin towns with similar household incomes (587)Better than 0%
High confidence. Built on 15,450 tested students and a graduating class of 5,496; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Wisconsin’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Wisconsin only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Wisconsin with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Test scores · 2020–21
State test results
Math (Milwaukee School District)10%
State average 37.2%
Graduation · class of 2020
67% graduate on time
Graduation rate
67%
WI: 90.1%
Graduating class
5,496
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #301 of 301 WI towns →
Districts
The district serving Milwaukee
Milwaukee School DistrictGrades PK–12 · 154 schools · 65,550 students
$20,815 per studentWI $16,459D-Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 248 schools in Milwaukee
Showing 1–30 of 248 schools
Bruce GuadalupeElementary · Grades PK–8 · 1,364 students
CharterMilwaukee Parkside SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 859 students
C-PublicLongfellow ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–8 · 773 students
DPublicFernwood MontessoriElementary · Grades PK–8 · 731 students
BPublicVieau ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–8 · 713 students
DPublicMilwaukee Scholars Charter SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 696 students
DCharterHayes Bilingual SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 670 students
DPublicGaenslen ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–8 · 641 students
D-PublicMorgandale ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–8 · 624 students
D-PublicDoerfler ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–8 · 609 students
D-PublicCongress ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–8 · 607 students
D-PublicMilwaukee Spanish ImmersionElementary · Grades PK–5 · 605 students
C-PublicHumboldt Park ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–8 · 604 students
CPublicFairview ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–8 · 603 students
C-PublicMitchell ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–8 · 597 students
D-PublicALBA - Academia de Lenguaje y Bellas ArtesElementary · Grades PK–8 · 593 students
DCharterU S Grant SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 585 students
D-PublicBethune AcademyElementary · Grades PK–8 · 574 students
D-PublicRogers Street AcademyElementary · Grades PK–8 · 570 students
D-PublicForest Home ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 559 students
D-PublicLa Causa Charter SchoolElementary · Grades PK–8 · 558 students
DCharterGreenfield BilingualElementary · Grades PK–8 · 556 students
DPublicBurbank ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–8 · 552 students
D-PublicMilwaukee German ImmersionElementary · Grades PK–5 · 549 students
B-PublicGarland ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–8 · 541 students
PublicBurdick ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–8 · 527 students
C-PublicGrantosa Drive ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–8 · 506 students
D-PublicMilwaukee Academy of Chinese LanguageElementary · Grades PK–8 · 499 students
DPublicMilwaukee College Preparatory School: Lola Rowe North CampusElementary · Grades PK–8 · 496 students
DCharterAcademy of Accelerated LearningElementary · Grades PK–5 · 493 students
D-PublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.