Eisenhower Middle/High

Eisenhower Middle/High is a combined middle and high school serving about 1,095 students in grades 7–12 in New Berlin, Wisconsin, a Milwaukee-area suburb, and it ranks among the strongest schools in the state: #17 of 533 Wisconsin high schools in 2025–26 (97th percentile, 5 stars), a rating it has held for ten straight years without ever dropping below the 96th percentile.

Outcomes back that up. The graduation rate is 99.4% (state: 92.0%), the dropout rate has been 0.0% in three of the last five years, and chronic absenteeism is 4.4% — roughly one-quarter of the 17.3% state rate, and essentially tied with New Berlin West Middle/High (4.1%) for best in the area. Test scores clear state averages by wide margins, with the biggest gap in 10th-grade Social Studies (+31.8 points). Within the New Berlin School District, Eisenhower beats New Berlin West on all seven Forward Exam measures at grades 7–8 — most notably Math 8 (+8.7 points) — while West leads in ACT ELA and Math at grade 10, and Eisenhower leads in ACT Science and Social Studies. Against Muskego High, the other consistently top-ranked nearby school, Muskego is ahead in ACT ELA and Math but about 10 points behind in ACT Science, 12 points behind in 10th-grade Social Studies, and reports roughly 2.7 times Eisenhower's chronic absenteeism.

Two relative soft spots: 8th-grade science, which is +10.2 over state but swings widely from year to year, and the special education subgroup, at the 59th percentile with 3 stars — the only measured group sitting well below the school's own standard. Low-income students, by contrast, rank in the 95th percentile. Eisenhower achieves this with mid-range spending of $14,896 per student and the largest classes in its district (16.7 students per teacher). Whitnall High, just 1.89 miles away, sits at the 63rd percentile — a reminder that strong results do not simply come with the neighborhood.