Milwaukee City Wire

Black students were the most represented ethnic group within Milwaukee County schools in the 2024-25 school year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Of the 114,823 students attending Milwaukee County schools, 32.3% were Black. White students were the second largest ethnicity, making up 28.4% of Milwaukee County students.

In the previous school year, Black students were also the most common group in Milwaukee County, representing 33% of the student body.

Countywide, Academy of Accelerated Learning had the most even distribution of races, which included 33.5% Hispanic students, 22.5% white students, 16.6% Asian students, 15.2% Black students, 11.6% multiracial students, and 0.6% American Indian students.

In the 2024-25 school year, the total number of students enrolled in public schools in the county dropped 1.7% compared to the previous year.

Wisconsin ranks 22nd in the U.S. for public education spending, with an annual expenditure of over $16,500 per pupil, totaling $13.8 billion.

School Name	Most Represented Ethnicity	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
ALBA - Academia de Lenguaje Y. Bellas Artes	Hispanic	99%	593
ASSATA High School	Black	91%	78
Academy of Accelerated Learning	Hispanic	33.5%	493
Alcott Elementary School	Hispanic	36.7%	264
Allen-Field Elementary School	Hispanic	82%	451
Alliance School of Milwaukee	Black	73.1%	141
Andrew S. Douglas Middle School	Black	93.4%	106
Atwater Elementary School	White	63.7%	474
Audubon Technology and Communication High School	Hispanic	59.9%	436
Audubon Technology and Communication Middle School	Hispanic	57.7%	345
Auer Avenue Elementary School	Black	93.4%	151
Banner Preparatory School of Milwaukee	Black	93.9%	49
Barbee Elementary School	Black	78.2%	289
Barton Elementary School	Black	84.8%	283
Bay View High School	Black	50.4%	1,021
Bay View Montessori School	White	57%	449
Bayside Middle School	White	72.9%	340
Ben Franklin Elementary School	White	68.5%	308
Bethune Academy	Black	62.2%	574
Blakewood Elementary School	White	55.7%	314
Bradley Technology High School	Black	71.8%	1,048
Brown Deer Elementary School	Black	50.9%	709
Brown Deer Middle/High School	Black	57.7%	904
Brown Street Academy	Black	89.8%	245
Browning Elementary School	Black	90.3%	279
Bruce Elementary School	Black	81.5%	270
Bryant Elementary School	Black	84%	212
Burbank Elementary School	Black	40.9%	552
Burdick Elementary School	Hispanic	41%	527
Canterbury Elementary School	White	73.1%	350
Carmen High School of Science and Technology South Campus	Hispanic	95.3%	382
Carmen High School of Science and Technology Southeast Campus	Hispanic	89.5%	679
Carmen Middle/High School of Science and Technology: Northwest Campus	Black	87.5%	526
Carollton Elementary School	White	69.7%	376
Carson Academy	Black	91.4%	326
Carver Academy	Black	92.6%	324
Cass Street Elementary School	Black	85.6%	312
Cedar Hills Elementary School	White	48.5%	295
Central High School	Hispanic	41.8%	961
Clarke Street Elementary School	Black	92.2%	167
Clemens Elementary School	Black	88.5%	321
Clement Avenue Elementary School	Hispanic	42.4%	238
College Park Elementary School	White	64.5%	273
Congress Elementary School	Black	91.3%	607
Cooper Elementary School	Hispanic	35.1%	447
Core4	White	72.4%	87
Country Dale Elementary School	White	62.7%	437
Craig Montessori School	Black	82.7%	220
Cudahy High School	White	52.3%	644
Cudahy Middle School	White	51.8%	247
Cumberland Elementary School	White	77.1%	624
Curtin Elementary School	Hispanic	49.2%	301
Deeper Learning Virtual Academy	White	40.9%	88
Deer Creek Intermediate School	White	51.3%	300
Deerfield Elementary School	White	78.3%	368
Doerfler Elementary School	Hispanic	84.7%	609
E. W. Luther Elementary School	White	69%	197
Early Learning Academy	White	52.6%	266
East High School	White	64.3%	1,043
Edgerton Elementary School	White	67.7%	378
Edgewood Elementary School	White	59.9%	325
Eighty-First Street Elementary School	Black	77.6%	357
Eisenhower Elementary School	White	43.4%	373
Elm Creative Arts Elementary School	Black	86%	335
Elm Dale Elementary School	White	48.6%	477
Emerson Elementary School	Black	84%	187
Engleburg Elementary School	Black	77.6%	286
Fairview Elementary School	Hispanic	45.9%	603
Fernwood Montessori	White	64.6%	731
Fifty-Third Street Elementary School	Black	84.7%	308
Forest Home Elementary School	Hispanic	83.4%	559
Forest Park Middle School	White	68.8%	1,056
Forest Ridge Elementary School	White	42.3%	435
Frank Lloyd Wright Intermediate School	White	48%	902
Franklin Elementary School	Black	92.3%	244
Franklin High School	White	68.8%	1,605
Fratney Elementary School	Hispanic	72.6%	459
Gaenslen Elementary School	Black	81.3%	641
Garland Elementary School	Asian	34.9%	541
Glen Hills Middle School	White	38.1%	483
Glenwood Elementary School	White	39.1%	307
Golda Meir School	Black	56%	1,192
Goodrich Elementary School	Black	67.3%	312
Grandview High School	Hispanic	72.6%	219
Grant Elementary School	Asian	48%	585
Grant Gordon Learning Center	Black	100%	1
Grantosa Drive Elementary School	Black	88.3%	506
Green Tree Preparatory Academy	Black	86.4%	535
Greendale High School	White	65.7%	882
Greendale Middle School	White	66%	617
Greenfield Bilingual	Hispanic	91.7%	556
Greenfield High School	White	45.4%	1,140
Greenfield Middle School	White	47.2%	704
Groppi High School	Black	85.7%	105
HAPA-Hmong American Peace Academy K3-12	Asian	96.5%	1,974
Hales Corners Elementary School	White	66.2%	520
Hamilton High School	Hispanic	44.6%	1,472
Hampton Elementary School	Black	80.9%	194
Hartford Avenue Elementary School	Black	83.6%	256
Hawley Environmental School	Black	72.9%	299
Hawthorne Elementary School	Black	85.7%	259
Hayes Bilingual School	Hispanic	97.6%	670
Hi-Mount Elementary School	Black	86.1%	166
Highland Community School	White	38.8%	387
Highland View Elementary School	White	67.3%	336
Holmes Elementary School	Black	90%	260
Honey Creek Elementary School	Hispanic	47.1%	393
Hopkins Lloyd Community School	Black	91.6%	143
Horace Mann Elementary School	Hispanic	42.2%	384
Humboldt Park Elementary School	Asian	42.9%	604
Ideal	Hispanic	42.9%	210
Indian Hill School	White	70.9%	223
Irving Elementary School	White	45.1%	375
Jackson Elementary School	Black	91.3%	206
James E. Dottke Alternative School	White	60.7%	168
James Madison Academic Campus	Black	86.8%	468
Jefferson Elementary School	White	59%	393
Jones Elementary School	White	43.3%	171
Kagel Elementary School	Hispanic	97.3%	292
Keefe Avenue Elementary School	Black	85.6%	125
Kilbourn Elementary School	Black	85.8%	218
King International	Black	60.9%	1,308
King International Baccalaureate Middle School	Black	90.6%	159
King Jr. Elementary School	Black	87.7%	277
Kluge Elementary School	Black	83.1%	301
Kosciuszko Elementary School	White	46.2%	208
La Causa Charter School	Hispanic	96.1%	558
LaFollette Elementary School	Black	88.4%	216
Lad Lake Synergy School	Black	63.6%	22
Lake Bluff Elementary School	White	64.6%	531
Lakeview Elementary School	White	44.9%	274
Lancaster Elementary School	Black	88.9%	316
Lincoln Avenue Elementary School	Hispanic	82.7%	427
Lincoln Elementary School	White	72%	336
Lincoln Middle School	Black	64.1%	309
Longfellow Elementary School	Hispanic	78.8%	773
Longfellow Middle School	White	69.8%	782
Lowell International Elementary School	Hispanic	46.4%	209
MacDowell Montessori School K3-12	Black	52.9%	823
Madison Elementary School	White	35.4%	257
Manitoba Elementary School	Hispanic	42%	469
Maple Dale School	White	67.9%	224
Maple Grove Elementary School	White	45.4%	427
Maple Tree Elementary School	Black	79.2%	235
Marshall High School	Black	91.9%	639
Maryland Montessori	White	59.8%	470
McKinley Elementary School	White	77.3%	388
Meadowview Elementary School	White	68.1%	320
Metcalfe Elementary School	Black	93.2%	296
Milwaukee Academy of Chinese Language	Black	68.1%	499
Milwaukee College Preparatory School - 36th Street Campus	Black	91%	486
Milwaukee College Preparatory School - 38th Street	Black	90.5%	474
Milwaukee College Preparatory School - Lloyd Street	Black	93.9%	492
Milwaukee College Preparatory School - Lola Rowe North Campus	Black	91.1%	496
Milwaukee County Correctional Facility South	Black	61.3%	31
Milwaukee County Youth Education Center	Black	75.5%	49
Milwaukee Environmental Science Academy	Black	90.2%	274
Milwaukee French Immersion	Black	60.1%	426
Milwaukee German Immersion	White	51.7%	549
Milwaukee High School of the Arts	Black	55.4%	959
Milwaukee Parkside School	Hispanic	42.5%	859
Milwaukee School of Languages	Black	46.9%	964
Milwaukee Sign Language Elementary School	Black	81.8%	384
Milwaukee Spanish Immersion	Hispanic	63.5%	605
Mitchell Elementary School	Hispanic	80.2%	403
Morgandale Elementary School	Hispanic	48.2%	624
Morse Middle School for the Gifted and Talented	Black	71.3%	383
NOVA - Northwest Opportunities Vocational Academy	Black	92.3%	104
Nathan Hale High School	White	50.9%	1,134
Neeskara Elementary School	Black	70.8%	356
New Horizons for Learning	White	68.2%	22
Next Door Charter	Black	95.8%	120
Nicolet High School	White	53.8%	1,043
Ninety-Fifth Street Elementary School	Black	61%	428
North Division High School	Black	90.5%	346
Oak Creek East Middle School	White	66%	935
Oak Creek High School	White	63%	2,220
Oak Creek West Middle School	White	51.2%	531
Obama School of Career and Technical Education	Black	76.7%	1,294
Parkview Elementary School	Black	45.4%	335
Parkway Elementary School	White	42.5%	490
Pershing Elementary School	Hispanic	46%	250
Pleasant View Elementary School	White	62.6%	422
Pratt Elementary School	Black	89.9%	288
Project STAY-Supporting Teachers and Youth	Black	85.1%	114
Pulaski High School	Hispanic	49.7%	1,041
Rawson Elementary School	White	50.9%	371
Reagan College Preparatory High School	Hispanic	48.3%	1,372
Richards Elementary School	White	78.8%	680
Riley Dual Language Montessori School	Hispanic	84.5%	239
River Trail Elementary School	Black	81%	406
Riverside High School	Black	66.8%	1,240
Riverwest Elementary School	Black	73.4%	244
Robinwood Elementary School	White	60.9%	437
Rogers Street Academy	Hispanic	90.2%	570
Roosevelt Elementary School	White	68.7%	396
Roosevelt Middle School	Black	88.9%	270
Saint Francis High School	White	41.3%	543
Seeds of Health Elementary Program	Hispanic	77.4%	380
Shalom High School	Black	94.1%	101
Shepard Hills Elementary School	White	56.1%	419
Sherman Elementary School	Black	90.5%	147
Shorewood High School	White	65.9%	589
Shorewood Intermediate School	White	67%	300
Siefert Elementary School	Black	89.7%	174
South Accelerated Academy	Hispanic	54.4%	57
South Division High School	Hispanic	56.9%	923
South Milwaukee High School	White	56.2%	920
South Milwaukee Middle School	White	53.9%	610
Southwood Glen Elementary School	White	62.2%	370
Starms Discovery	Black	90.3%	268
Starms Early Childhood	Black	91.2%	205
Stormonth Elementary School	White	79.9%	473
Story Elementary School	Black	76.7%	365
Stuart Elementary School	Black	61.2%	322
Tenor High School	Hispanic	60.1%	651
Thoreau Elementary School	Black	85.8%	353
Thurston Woods Elementary School	Black	88.7%	256
Time 4 Learning Charter School	White	78.4%	88
Townsend Street Elementary School	Black	86.4%	257
Transition High School	Black	85.6%	90
Trowbridge Street School of Great Lakes Studies	Hispanic	43%	228
Underwood Elementary School	White	37.8%	315
Vel R. Phillips School	Black	77%	139
Veritas High School	Hispanic	91.8%	256
Victory Elementary School	Asian	48.5%	419
Vieau Elementary School	Hispanic	89.5%	713
Vincent Accelerated Academy	Black	86.8%	53
Vincent High School	Black	82.5%	611
WHS Information Technology	Black	88.8%	402
Walker Elementary School	White	56.1%	371
Washington Elementary School	White	70.9%	285
Wauwatosa Montessori School	White	66.5%	176
Wauwatosa STEM	White	83.5%	127
Wauwatosa Virtual Academy	Black	40.7%	91
Wedgewood Park School	Hispanic	47.5%	541
West High School	White	49.5%	986
West Milwaukee Intermediate School	Hispanic	40.7%	378
Westside Academy	Black	86.8%	159
Whitefish Bay High School	White	72.6%	945
Whitefish Bay Middle School	White	75.7%	612
Whitman Elementary School	Hispanic	39.5%	339
Whitman Middle School	White	45.1%	570
Whitnall High School	White	64.1%	821
Whitnall Middle School	White	66.3%	558
Whittier Elementary School	White	33.6%	146
Willow Glen Primary School	White	50.6%	263
Wilson Elementary School	White	67%	218
Wisconsin Conservatory of Lifelong Learning	Black	87.8%	286
Zablocki Elementary School	Hispanic	47.2%	250