A Milwaukee high school is one of the lowest performing in the U.S. Is help on the way?
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.
