ASSATA High

ASSATA High is a 9–12 high school serving 78 students at 3517 W Courtland Ave on Milwaukee's north side, part of the Milwaukee School District and one of the smallest high schools in its comparison group.

ASSATA sits at the very bottom of the state ranking: 533rd of 533 schools in 2025–2026 (0 percentile, 0 stars), while its district ranks 418th of 432. In the provided 2025–2026 data, ASSATA reports 0% proficiency in all four tested 10th-grade subjects — Social Studies, English Language Arts, Math, and Science. Completion outcomes are also in crisis: a 22.5% graduation rate and a 25.7% dropout rate, compared with 71.5% and 4.0% district-wide and 92.0% and 1.1% statewide. Chronic absenteeism was 73.1%, far above the district's 46.2% and the state's 17.3%. About 92.31% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending was $18,995, and the student-teacher ratio was 27.4 — roughly 2.8 teachers for the whole school.

Nearby comparisons add context. Banner Preparatory School of Milwaukee operates at essentially the same address (3517A W Courtland Ave) with a 64.7% graduation rate, 1.1% dropout rate, 89.8% chronic absenteeism, the same 0% Social Studies proficiency, $58,875 per-student spending, and a 16.3 student-teacher ratio. NOVA-Northwest Opportunities Vocational Academy has a lower graduation rate (11.9%), higher dropout rate (28.4%), and higher absenteeism (98.8%) yet ranks higher — likely because it reported 33.33% Social Studies proficiency. Meanwhile, King International posts 94.3% graduation, 0.5% dropout, and 23.84–38.08% proficiency with lower spending ($17,946) and a lower ratio (18.1), and Whitefish Bay High reaches 97.7% graduation, 0.0% dropout, 3.1% absenteeism, and 79–83% proficiency on $14,106 per student. ASSATA was once ranked 22nd of 287 (2004–2005), showing a steep long-term decline rather than a steady pattern.