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Whitefish Bay School District, WI: schools, enrollment and spending
Whitefish Bay School District runs 4 public schools with 2,861 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 16.0 students per teacher is 2.0 higher than the Wisconsin figure of 14.0.
At a glance
- Schools
- 4
- Students
- 2,861
- Teachers (FTE)
- 179
- Students per teacher
- 16.0
- WI: 14.0 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 1200 E Fairmount Ave, Whitefish Bay, WI 53217
- Phone
- (414)963-3901
- County
- Milwaukee County
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 5516620
- State district ID
- WI-6419
- Total staff (FTE)
- 323
- School counselors (FTE)
- 8.0About 358 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 8.0
Students per teacher compared
This district16.0
Wisconsin14.0
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (2,864), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $40.7 million
- Federal revenue
- $1.1 million
- State revenue
- $16.4 million
- Local revenue
- $23.2 million
- Total spending
- $36.4 million
- Spending per pupil
- $12,699
- Salaries
- $20.5 million56.3% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $6.7 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 2.8%
- State: 40.2%
- Local: 57.1%
Wisconsin overall
- Federal: 8.3%
- State: 45.0%
- Local: 46.6%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$12,699
Wisconsin$16,827
United States$16,826
Schools in Whitefish Bay School District
By level: 1 high, 1 middle, 2 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Cumberland Elementary | Elementary | PK to 5 | 624 | 16.4 |
| Richards Elementary | Elementary | PK to 5 | 680 | 18.4 |
| Whitefish Bay High | High | 9 to 12 | 945 | 16.3 |
| Whitefish Bay Middle | Middle | 6 to 8 | 612 | 13.9 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Milwaukee County
- Milwaukee School District 65,599 students
- Wauwatosa School District 6,704 students
- West Allis-West Milwaukee School District 6,615 students
- Oak Creek-Franklin Joint School District 6,554 students
- Franklin Public School District 4,666 students
- Greenfield School District 3,380 students
- South Milwaukee School District 2,686 students
- Greendale School District 2,546 students
- Whitnall School District 2,364 students
- Cudahy School District 1,985 students
- Shorewood School District 1,916 students
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- Brown Deer School District 1,613 students
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.