By the numbers, Milwaukee North Division High School is one of the lowest performing comprehensive public high schools in America.
Let’s start with a few numbers from the state Department of Public Instruction:
Daily attendance during the 2016-’17 school year: 62.3%.
Graduation rate, as of the 2016-’17 school year: Graduating after four years in high school, 31.7%. For those at the end of their fifth year, 30.1%. At the end of their sixth year, 53.2%.
The state report card for the school, issued last fall, says 7.5% of juniors who took the ACT test required by the state were proficient in language arts. Proficient in math: 0%.
The percentage of students whose scores were “below basic,” the lowest category: 80% in language arts and 87.5% in math.
The average ACT test score for the school was 13.3.