Public school / High / Charter
Waukesha East Alternative School
Waukesha, Wisconsin
- NCES ID
- 551578002502
- District
- Waukesha School District
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Waukesha East Alternative School is a public high school in Waukesha, Wisconsin, run by Waukesha School District. It enrols 74 students — the 89578th largest of 2,264 public schools in Wisconsin.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
74
Teachers
12.0
Students per teacher
6.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
77.0%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Waukesha School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1West High1,194 students
- 2North High1,016 students
- 3South High890 students
- 4Butler Middle811 students
- 5Eachieve Academy - Wisconsin749 students
- 6Waukesha STEM Academy646 students
- 7Horning Middle618 students
- 8Les Paul Middle582 students
- Enrollment−78.2%
- Teachers−47.8%
- Students per teacher−54.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+91.1%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory