Seeds of Health Inc

Seeds of Health Inc is a small Milwaukee charter network of three schools serving 1,287 students — two high schools (grades 9–12) and one PK–8 elementary program. It ranks in the bottom 2% of Wisconsin districts (425 of 432, 0 stars), and every school is rated 0–1 stars, so this is a network working from far behind rather than one with a broad record of high performance.

Among the two high schools, Veritas High clearly stands out. It graduates 90.6% of its students — 6.4 points above the district and only 1.4 points below the state — while posting the network's lowest dropout rate (1.6%) and lowest chronic absenteeism (20.2%). It does this even though it has the lowest per-student spending ($8,407) and a higher share of low-income students (75%) than Tenor High (66%). Veritas also earns the best high school test scores in the network in ELA, math and science. Tenor High, the largest school with 651 students and a 24:1 student–teacher ratio, has the lowest graduation rate (82.1%) and a dropout rate (3.2%) nearly triple the state's 1.1%.

At Seeds of Health Elementary Program, every grade and subject falls below the state, with gaps ranging from 17.1 points (4th-grade social studies) to 46.6 points (6th-grade math). Fourth grade is the bright spot, at 35.48% proficient in ELA and 48.39% in social studies. However, the elementary has the network's worst chronic absenteeism at 36.9% — more than double the state's 17.3%. Two themes run across all three schools: attendance, since every school exceeds the state's absenteeism rate, and science, where proficiency never reaches 23% at any school or grade.