By the Numbers: Milwaukee Public Schools Graduation Rates Consistently Below State Averages in 2015

MILWAUKEE -- Wisconsin had 57,698 students graduate from high school with a regular diploma in 2015, a graduation rate of 88.4 percent that bests the national rate of 82.3 percent.

Milwaukee Public Schools saw 3,060 students earn their high school diploma in 2015, with a graduation rate of 58.2 percent - making it the most challenged district in the state.

MPS graduated the area's largest classes based on ethnicity, however each student group's graduation rate lagged below even modest state averages.

Milwaukee - by the Numbers
2015: 58.2% (3060 students)
American Indian 43.2% (16 students)
Asian 78.7 % (251 students)
Black 54.7% (1801 students)
Hispanic 58.7% (639 students)
White 67.9% (347 students)

See how MPS stacks up to neighboring school districts and their 2015 graduation rates:

All Students

1. 98.3% New Berlin
2. 98.1% Nicolet
3. 98.0% Menomonee Falls
4. 97.7% Greendale
5. 97.6% Mequon-Thiensville
6. 97.3% South Milwaukee
7. 97.2% Hudson
8. 97.0% Shorewood
9. 96.9% Oak Creek-Franklin
10. 96.8% Whitnall
11. 96.7% Sussex-Hamilton
12. 96.6% Elmbrook
13. 96.2% Port Washington-Saukville
14. 95.8% Muskego-Norway
15. 95.2% Brown Deer
16. 95.1% Germantown
17. 93.5% Wauwatosa
18. 93.3% Cudahy
19. 93.3% Whitefish Bay
20. 91.9% St. Francis
21. 86.% Greenfield
22. 84.0% Waukesha
23. 74.3% Racine
24. 58.2% Milwaukee

MPS ranks at the head of the class when graduating black students in 2015 with the area's largest group, but at the bottom of the class in graduation rate.

Black Students - state average 64%

1. 100% (43 students) Menomonee Falls
2. 100% (31 students) Shorewood
3. 100% (9 students) Hudson
4. 95.2% (40 students) Nicolet
5. 93.4% (71 students) Brown Deer
6. 93.8% (30 students) Whitefish Bay
7. 93.0% (40 students) Oak Creek-Franklin
8. 92.9% (26 students) Mequon-Thiensville
9. 92.2% (95 students) Wauwatosa
10. 90.0% (27 students) Elmbrook
11. 85.7% (12 students) Germantown
12. 81.3% (13 students) St. Franics
13. 70.3% (45 students) Waukesha
14. 63.0% (262 students) Racine
15. 54.7% (1801 students) Milwaukee

As we mentioned earlier, MPS also ranks at the top with the largest graduating Hispanic student group, but it does so at the area's lowest rate in 2015:

Hispanic Students - state average 77.5%

1. 100% (19 students) Menomonee Falls
2. 100% (10 students) Sussex-Hamilton
3. 100% (9 students) Germantown
4. 100% (8 students) Brown Deer
5. 98.6% (71 students) Oak Creek-Franklin
6. 97.2% (35 students) St. Francis
7. 95.2% (20 students) Whitnall
8. 93.8% (30 students) South Milwaukee
9. 93.3% (14 students) Greendale
10. 92.3% (12 students) Muskego
11. 92.3% (12 students) Whitefish Bay
12. 90.9% (20 students) Elmbrook
13. 86.2% (25 students) Cudahy
14. 83.8% (57 students) Greenfield
15. 82.4% (28 students) Wauwatosa
16. 77.8% (7 students) Port Washington-Saukville
17. 77.6% (125 students) Waukesha
18. 67.9% (243 students) Racine
19. 58.7% (639 students) Milwaukee