Summary:
ZIP code 53403 in Racine, Wisconsin contains two schools, both in the Racine Unified School District, which ranks 411 of 432 districts in the state at the 5th percentile with 0 stars: Park High, a high school serving grades 7–12 with 1,203 students, and Mitchell School, an elementary school serving grades PK–8 with 1,040 students. The area summary lists 1 elementary school, 1 high school, and 0 middle schools, but middle grades are still served inside these two campuses rather than at a separately classified middle school.
Park High is the larger school and has shown modest upward movement from a low base: its rank moved from the 1st percentile in 2023–2024 to the 2nd percentile in 2024–2025 and the 8th percentile in 2025–2026, and its ACT proficiency rose in English Language Arts (14.71% to 17.86%) and Mathematics (7.14% to 10.32%) over the past year. Its graduation rate was 81.1%, below the district's 85.3% and the state's 92.0%, and its dropout rate was 2.5%. Chronic absenteeism is the biggest concern at 57.6%, far above the district's 36.5% and the state's 17.3%.
Mitchell School spends more per student ($18,829 versus $17,071) and has a lower student-teacher ratio (10.7 versus 13.7), and its chronic absenteeism of 46.7% is lower than Park High's but still well above district and state figures. Its English Language Arts proficiency improved in every tested grade 3–8 in 2025–2026, and social studies was a relative bright spot at 19.4% in 4th grade and 21.99% in 8th grade. Math, however, is its clearest weakness: proficiency ranged from 3.5% to 7.46% across grades 3–8, with 8th grade math at 3.5%, the lowest figure in this data set. Overall, both schools are high-need and rank near the bottom of Wisconsin, with severe absenteeism and especially weak math outcomes.
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