Summary:
Milwaukee Scholars Charter School is an elementary school serving 670 students in grades PK-8 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The school has consistently ranked in the bottom 10% of Wisconsin elementary schools over the past several years, with a 0 out of 5 star rating from SchoolDigger, indicating very poor performance.
Milwaukee Scholars Charter School significantly underperforms the state and district averages on standardized tests, with proficiency rates ranging from 11.48% to 32.84% in English Language Arts and Mathematics, compared to the state averages of 50.36% to 56.58%. The school also has an extremely high chronic absenteeism rate of 44.8% and a concerning 5.7% dropout rate. While the school performs relatively better for its African American students, it still ranks in the bottom half of Wisconsin elementary schools for this subgroup, and its performance for other subgroups, such as female students, male students, multi-racial students, special education students, and low socioeconomic status students, is in the bottom 25% of Wisconsin elementary schools.
Interestingly, the nearby public schools in the Milwaukee School District, such as Stuart Elementary, Browning Elementary, and Bruce Elementary, also perform poorly on academic measures, with proficiency rates well below the state averages. However, Milwaukee Scholars Charter School still underperforms these nearby district schools on most metrics, despite having significantly higher spending per student ($20,832 in 2020-2021) compared to the surrounding Milwaukee School District schools ($15,135 to $18,593 per student).
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