Summary
Alliance School of Milwaukee is a public high school serving grades 9–12 at 850 W Walnut St in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with 141 students in the Milwaukee School District, which itself ranks near the bottom of the state (418th of 432). At 141 students, Alliance is small even locally — about one-seventh the size of Milwaukee High School of the Arts (959 students). Its most striking feature is persistence: it appears in the state ranking record every year since 2007–08 and has earned 0 stars each time, landing between the 3rd and 7th percentile. The 2025–26 rank of 498 of 533 (7th percentile) is the highest in its recorded history, and still bottom-decile.
On 2025–26 10th-grade tests, proficiency was low in absolute terms: 22.22% in social studies, 13.33% in English language arts, 0% in math, and 7.69% in science — below district rates and roughly a quarter to half of state rates. Within its immediate neighborhood, though, Alliance is not the weakest. It placed 4th of 7 schools with reported social studies data and 3rd of 7 in ELA. Shalom High, less than a mile away, reported 0% in all four subjects, and NOVA and North Division High also posted zeros in multiple subjects. With roughly 35 students per grade, single-year score swings are noisy and best read as directional.
Graduation is the genuine bright spot: 50.0% in 2024–25 (district 71.5%, state 92.0%), up from 36.1% two years earlier, with a 9.0% dropout rate better than four nearby high schools. Attendance is the opposite story — 91.5% of students were chronically absent, nearly double the district and more than five times the state, and it has worsened while the district improved. Spending rose 35% since 2019–20 to $23,531 per student, yet Milwaukee High School of the Arts spends about $4,550 less and graduates 90.8%. Male and female students perform at the same level, but one student subgroup ranks at the 1st percentile statewide.
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