PATCH REPORT: Fox Point Population, Students Among Most Highly-Educated in State

FOX POINT -- When you think of a healthy community, many contributing factors come to mind, but you'd be hard pressed to find one that fails to graduate their high school students and send their children to college.

We checked this out for your community, analyzing U.S. Census data for citizens age 25 and over. We looked at the percent of your community's population that has attained at least a high school graduation and what percentage of your population that attained at least a college degree.

We found that Fox Point Residents were near the top of the list for categories we investigated, and well above U.S. averages.

We also looked at an educational study conducted by the University of Stanford, which looked at the educational attainment of each U.S. School District and how it compared with national averages.

The study found that students in the Fox Point School District were at an educational level 2.1 grade levels higher than national averages. That means that the average fourth grader is performing at the educational level of the U.S. average sixth grader. Students in the Maple Dale-Indian Hills School District were recorded as 1.6 grade levels above average.

Student Educational Attainment - National Averages

88.4 Percent High School Graduate or Higher
32.5 Percent Bachelor's Degree or Higher

Local Percent of population with High School Graduate or Higher

98.9 Elm Grove
98.9 Mequon
98.8 Fox Point
98.5 Whitefish Bay
97.8 Hudson
97.2 Brookfield
96.7 Shorewood
96.5 Wauwatosa
96.1 Muskego
96.0 Greendale
95.8 New Berlin
95.7 Sussex
95.1 Port Washington
94.9 Germantown
94.6 Menomonee Falls
93.6 Caledonia
93.5 Oak Creek
93.0 Waukesha
92.5 Saukville
92.4 Mount Pleasant
92.3 Franklin
91.1 Greenfield
90.0 West Allis
89.6 South Milwaukee
88.2 Kenosha
87.1 Cudahy
85.9 St. Franics
83.8 Sturtevant
81.8 Milwaukee
81.2 Racine

Local Percent of population with Bachelor's Degree or Higher

76.5 Fox Point
75.9 Elm Grove
75.8 Whitefish Bay
67.6 Shorewood
63.9 Mequon
57.7 Brookfield
55.8 Wauwatosa
46.7 Hudson
40.8 Menomonee Falls
40.6 New Berlin
38.9 Greendale
38.6 Germantown
37.7 Port Washington
35.8 Sussex
34.4 Waukesha
34.1 Franklin
33.6 Muskego
33.0 Mount Pleasant
31.1 Caledonia
29.1 Oak Creek
27.3 St. Francis
27.0 Saukville
26.7 Greenfield
23.0 Kenosha
22.8 Milwaukee
22.4 West Allis
20.9 Cudahy
18.8 South Milwaukee
17.2 Racine
15.6 Sturtevant

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