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Waukesha School District

Waukesha, Wisconsin · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

10,922
Students enrolled
27
Public schools
784
Classroom teachers (FTE)
13.9:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 587
  • Kindergarten 641
  • Grade 1 691
  • Grade 2 704
  • Grade 3 709
  • Grade 4 744
  • Grade 5 742
  • Grade 6 696
  • Grade 7 795
  • Grade 8 819
  • Grade 9 850
  • Grade 10 933
  • Grade 11 949
  • Grade 12 1,062

By race/ethnicity

  • White 60%
  • Hispanic/Latino 25%
  • Two or more races 6%
  • Black or African American 6%
  • Asian 3%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%
  • Race not reported <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

38% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 4,181 of 10,917 students in the 26 of its 27 schools that report
  • Free lunch 34%
  • Reduced-price lunch 4%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$14,495 spent per student on day-to-day operations Wisconsin median: $15,562 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $8,550
  • Support services $5,317
  • Other (food service, etc.) $629

Where the money comes from

  • Local 50%
  • State 39%
  • Federal 11%

Total revenue $202.6 milliontotal spending $201.7 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

City: SmallStudents: 96% city, 4% suburb

Total staff (FTE)

1,405

District office

301 Hyde Park Avenue, Waukesha WI 53188

County

Waukesha County

Official website

NCES District ID

5515780

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About Waukesha School District

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

The School District of Waukesha is located fifteen miles west of Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the rolling hills of Waukesha County. With over 12,000 pre-kindergarten through 12th grade students served in our 20 schools, we are the seventh largest school district in the State of Wisconsin. Our schools include three comprehensive high schools, three middle schools, and 14 elementary schools. In addition, we serve students in six charter schools: Waukesha STEM Academy which has two campuses - Randall for Grades K-5 and Saratoga for Grades 6 and 7, Harvey Philip Alternative Charter School, Charter Recovery School, Waukesha Academy of Health Professions, Waukesha Engineering Preparatory Academy, and iQ/eAchieve Academy Wisconsin. The Waukesha schools offer a full array of courses and activities from which students can learn and grow. The culture of our district is very school oriented and individual schools have autonomy in most operational, budget and staff areas. Our district has a well-articulated curriculum which is sequential in nature and based on Wisconsin State Standards and Benchmarks. We are proud to declare that one of our district high schools has won the State Academic Decathlon title nine times and was the National Academic Decathlon winner in 2002. Our district is well known for its music, art and other fine arts initiatives. Our marching bands have been state winners multiple years in the AAAA division, our choirs and strings groups are sought to perform widely across the area, and our art students have won local, state and national awards and scholarships based on their work. The Waukesha schools also perform well in competitive sports programs and have a full complement of opportunities for students. To find out more about the Waukesha School District or individual schools, continue to explore our website, using the contact information in this website to call or e-mail the school administration.
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