Summary:
ZIP code 53209 has three high schools — King International (grades 9–12), ASSATA High (9–12), and Banner Preparatory School of Milwaukee (6–12) — all part of the Milwaukee School District, which is ranked 418 of 432 districts in Wisconsin with 0 stars.
Size matters a lot here. King International enrolls 1,308 students, about 91% of all high schoolers in the ZIP, while ASSATA has 78 and Banner has 49. King is the strongest of the three on nearly every outcome: a 94.3% graduation rate (above the district's 71.5% and the state's 92.0%), a 0.5% dropout rate, and the highest proficiency in every reported subject — for example, 38.08% in English language arts and 23.84% in math, both above district averages but below state averages. Its chronic absenteeism is 38.2%, lower than the district's 46.2% but still more than double the state's 17.3%.
ASSATA and Banner face steeper challenges. ASSATA graduates 22.5% of students, has a 25.7% dropout rate, 73.1% chronic absenteeism, a 27.4 student-teacher ratio, and reports 0% proficiency in all available tests; it ranks last of 533 schools at the 0th percentile. Banner has the lowest student-teacher ratio at 16.3 and by far the highest spending at $58,875 per student — yet the highest absenteeism at 89.8%, a 64.7% graduation rate, and one reported test score of 0%. Because ASSATA and Banner are very small and Banner serves grades 6–12, their rates can swing widely and should be read cautiously.
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