Summary:
New Berlin, Wisconsin is served by 7 public schools — five elementary schools for grades PK–5/6 and two combined middle/high schools for grades 7–12, meaning there is no standalone middle school — with a combined enrollment of 4,669 students. Six of the seven, enrolling 92.8% of local students, belong to the New Berlin School District, ranked #29 of 432 districts statewide; the seventh, Hoover Elementary, belongs to the West Allis-West Milwaukee School District, ranked #400 of 432. That district split is the defining feature of this area.
Eisenhower Middle/High is the academic flagship, ranked #17 of 533 high schools statewide (97th percentile, 5 stars) with a 99.4% graduation rate and 0.0% dropout rate. New Berlin West Middle/High was the biggest mover, climbing from the 85th to the 96th percentile and now leading the city in ACT ELA (70.30%) and ACT Math (73.94%). Among elementaries, Poplar Creek Elementary posts the highest composite (about 79%) despite the district's highest free/reduced-lunch rate (22.37%), Elmwood Elementary rebounded sharply to a 94th-percentile ranking, and Orchard Lane Elementary is the only school with three straight years of rank improvement (#271 → #192 → #141).
Hoover Elementary is the counterpoint: its composite of roughly 49% is about 25 points below the nearest New Berlin elementary, and its 56% free/reduced-lunch rate is more than double any other school here — yet it is improving on every trend line, and its 11.2% chronic absenteeism is well below its own district's 19.5%. Across the city, per-pupil spending and class size do not track with achievement. Attendance is a strength area-wide, with chronic absenteeism of 1.2%–4.4% in New Berlin schools versus 17.3% statewide.
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