High Schools in South Milwaukee School District

The South Milwaukee School District has only one high school, South Milwaukee High, which serves students in grades 9-12. The school's performance has been declining in recent years, with a statewide ranking that has dropped from 371 out of 415 Wisconsin high schools in 2022-2023 to 411 out of 431 in 2023-2024, and a 0-1 star rating from SchoolDigger.

Academically, South Milwaukee High faces significant challenges, with proficiency rates on the Forward Exam and ACT tests that are significantly lower than the state averages across all subject areas. For example, in 2023-2024, the school's proficiency rate in Mathematics was 26.64%, compared to the state average of 42.37%. The school's four-year graduation rate for 2022-2023 was 91.6%, slightly above the state average, but its dropout rate of 2.7% is slightly higher than the state average, and its chronic absenteeism rate of 32.6% is significantly higher than the state average.

Despite these academic challenges, South Milwaukee High has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 13.5 and a higher per-student spending of $13,355 for the 2020-2021 school year, both of which are better than the state averages. However, the school serves a population with a relatively high proportion of students from low-income families, with 50.71% of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, which may contribute to the academic struggles the school is facing.