Summary:
The Wauwatosa School District includes 17 schools — 11 elementary, 2 middle, 2 high, and 2 alternative — serving roughly 6,704 students, and the district as a whole is rated 142 of 432 in Wisconsin (67th percentile, 3 stars). That district rating is attached to every campus, so it hides wide differences among individual schools; elementary ranks are out of about 1,039 schools, middle out of about 643, and high out of about 533.
At the top, Wauwatosa STEM ranked 91st of 1,039 (91st percentile, 5 stars) with 5th grade ELA at 95%, 4th grade social studies at 100%, 4th grade science at 90.91%, and 5th grade math at 85%, plus the lowest free/reduced lunch rate at 3.15%. Lincoln Elementary ranked 52nd of 1,039 (95th percentile, 5 stars) with 3rd grade math at 89.36% and the lowest non-alternative chronic absenteeism at 3.0%. Wauwatosa Montessori School, Roosevelt Elementary, and McKinley Elementary also rank in the 86th–87th percentile. East High leads the high schools at 33rd of 533 (94th percentile, 5 stars), with a 95.8% graduation rate and 10th grade proficiency above district and state in every reported subject, and Longfellow Middle ranks 89th percentile among middle schools.
Results are most polarized at the elementary level: Madison Elementary (23rd percentile) posted 4th grade math at 6.9%, with Eisenhower Elementary and Underwood Elementary (highest free/reduced lunch at 41.59%) also in the bottom third. Whitman Middle (48th percentile) trails Longfellow despite lower per-student spending at Longfellow, and West High sits above state but below district in all reported 10th grade subjects. Notably, spending and student-teacher ratios do not predict outcomes, and lower free/reduced lunch rates generally align with higher proficiency — though East High is a clear exception.
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