Summary:
Racine Unified School District serves roughly 14,935 students across 21 schools — 14 labeled elementary, 6 high, and 1 alternative — though grade spans actually run from PK through 12, with several "elementary" schools covering PK–8 and some "high" schools starting in grades 6 or 7. The Racine Unified School District overall is rated 411 of 432 in Wisconsin, in the 5th percentile, with 0 stars.
Individual schools still differ sharply. Walden III High is the district's highest-ranked school (303 of 533, 43rd percentile, 2 stars), with a 94.4% graduation rate, 0.1% dropout rate, and the strongest Social Studies (55.32%) and ACT ELA (53.62%) results in the district — though ACT Math sits at 18.84%. Goodland Montessori posts the best elementary/middle test profile (about 56% averaged across Forward Exam rows), the lowest regular-school chronic absenteeism at 11.1%, the lowest regular per-student spending at $14,073, and the highest regular student-teacher ratio at 16.8. Gifford School ranks at the 30th percentile with 14.0% chronic absenteeism, while The REAL School has the top graduation rate at 98.3% and the best ACT Math among high schools at 39.13%.
Chronic absenteeism is a district-wide challenge: regular schools average about 33.1%, versus 17.3% statewide, with Park High at 57.6% and Horlick High at 56.7%; Case High, the strongest traditional high school, is at 43.2%. Graduation rates range from 98.3% at REAL and 94.4% at Walden down to 81.1% at Park. Free/reduced lunch averages about 61.5% at regular schools, from 85.71% at Knapp Elementary to 29.98% at Gifford. Per-student spending averages about $17,196, from $21,740 at Wadewitz Elementary to $14,073 at Goodland — spending and outcomes do not move together in this snapshot.
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