Original Research by School Decision on Wilmot Uhs School District
Wilmot UHS School District is a single-high-school district in Kenosha County, serving only grades nine through twelve. The entire district consists of one school, Wilmot High, so for a family with younger children the question of where elementary and middle schooling happens is central; those grades are handled by the local elementary and middle school districts that feed into Wilmot, and a buyer or renter will need to check those feeder boundaries separately.
The student body of roughly nine hundred is predominantly white, with a Hispanic/Latino share that is in line with many southeastern Wisconsin communities and small populations of multiracial and Black students. Enrollment is spread fairly evenly across the four grade levels, suggesting a stable population of roughly two hundred to two hundred fifty students per class. The district did not report the share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, nor the share of students receiving special education services or English learner supports, so it is not possible from the available data to characterize the level of economic or academic support need in the building. A parent may want to ask the school directly about these figures.
State testing results were not present in the data the district provided, so there is no way to describe academic proficiency in math, English language arts, or science from the available record. Without that information, the primary academic benchmark for this district is unavailable. The district does report a chronic absenteeism rate, which is among the higher rates in Kenosha County, placing in the bottom quartile of the county's twelve districts. This is a soft spot worth noting; a parent may want to understand what drives that figure and what supports the school has in place to improve attendance.
On the spending side, per-pupil current expenditure is in the upper range among Kenosha County's districts, which suggests the district dedicates above-average resources per student relative to its neighbors. What that spending supports in terms of course offerings, staffing, or facilities is not detailed in the available data. Because this is a high-school-only district, the spending figure reflects only the secondary level, which can look higher than a K-through-12 district because it does not include the lower-cost elementary grades.
Housing in the district's attendance area covers a mix of communities. Home values cluster in the mid-to-upper three-hundred-thousand-dollar range, with a wide spread from the lower three-hundred-thousands up past four hundred thousand depending on the specific ZIP code within the district. The area includes parts of Burlington, Bloomfield, Salem, and Twin Lakes, and values have risen moderately in the last year, roughly on pace with the state overall. The estimated monthly mortgage at current rates is near two thousand dollars, which is a meaningful but not extraordinary cost for a household in the region. Rental cost data was not available, so renters will need to research the local market separately.
Because the district is a single-high-school unit, the student experience is contained entirely within one building with a single administrative leadership and one set of programs. The district's website and the high school are the same entity by practical measure. A family choosing this district is choosing a high school of moderate size where the peer group is largely white and from a surrounding area of suburban and exurban character, where the housing stock is moderately priced for the region, and where the academic record is opaque from the perspective of the data available. The above-average spending invites the question of what those dollars buy in terms of curriculum breadth, elective options, and student supports; the district and high school are the best sources for that answer.
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