Summary:
ZIP code 53215 contains seven high schools — most serving grades 9–12, with Lad Lake Synergy School serving grades 6–12 — enrolling 2,477 students combined across three districts that all rank near the bottom statewide: five schools are in Milwaukee School District, while Veritas High is in Seeds of Health Inc and Escuela Verde is in Trans Center for Youth Inc, and each district holds 0 stars. Poverty is high everywhere, with free/reduced lunch ranging from 75.00% at Veritas to 96.07% at Carmen High School of Science and Technology South Campus.
The clearest bright spots are Carmen South and Veritas. Carmen South has the best graduation rate at 93.8% and the lowest dropout rate at 0.7%, plus the strongest test proficiency in social studies (32.99%), ELA (36.26%), and science (29.67%). Veritas graduates 90.6% of students, has the lowest chronic absenteeism at 20.2%, and leads the group in math at 24.53%. Audubon Technology and Communication High graduates 85.5% with a 1.3% dropout rate and improved its rank percentile from 1% to 9%.
Other schools face steeper challenges. Grandview High has the lowest graduation rate among non-alternative schools at 37.0%, the highest dropout rate at 15.6%, chronic absenteeism of 85.8%, and a 31.2 student-teacher ratio. Pulaski High is the largest school at 1,041 students but graduates 67.5% with 77.7% chronic absenteeism. Escuela Verde reports 0.00% math proficiency. Lad Lake enrolls just 22 students, spends $65,500 per student, and has no test-score records. Every school with reported test data scores below the state in every subject.
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