Super Scholars’ Success
Another indicator of success that best describes Milwaukee College Prep’s success is the high school acceptance letters our 8th grade scholars receive. Our 8th graders continue to be accepted at high-profile high schools. One of last year’s graduates is attending the Thacher School on a full $40,000 a year scholarship! Every student at Thacher gets a great education in their pristine setting in the mountains outside of Santa Barbara, CA, and also gets their own horse. Students are required to get up each morning to care for their horse before heading to classes, and they ride several days a week.
Other graduates have earned admission and scholarships to Exeter Academy (NH), Hotchkiss School (CT), Piney Woods (MS), Wayland Academy (Beaver Dam, WI), Brookfield Academy, University School, Marquette, Dominican, Divine Savior Holy Angels, Pius, and Rufus King among others.
Alumni Success
Our alumni are forging ahead on the path of success as well. The University of Chicago, Marquette, Syracuse, Xavier, Howard and Savannah Institute of Art and Design are just a few of the institutions that have accepted alumni from our first graduating class who are now high school seniors. In a city where less than 40% of the African American teenagers graduate from high school and only 5% of adult African-Americans in Milwaukee have college degrees, 113 of our 115 graduates are still in high school and on track to earn their diplomas on time and 16 of the 24 graduates from 4 years ago are headed off to institutes of higher learning in the fall.
When considering these results, please remember that statistically these students have a very slim chance of success (99% black, 66% from single parent homes, 75% low income) and every child is accepted through a random selection process.
Highest Praise
Last, Milwaukee College Prep’s reputation of excellence has attracted visitors from across the country. For example, in the past five years, we have hosted close to 20 interns here who have gone on to start or lead high performing/high poverty charter schools across the country, ranging from the Edward Burke Charter School in Boston to the Bedford-Stuyvesant Charter School for Boys in New York to KIPP’s first elementary school in Houston and education reform minded visitors such as Rudy Giuliani and Dick DeVoss, the President of Amway. And if, as Gandhi stated, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” then the opening of the new Henry Johnson School in Albany, NY, is the ultimate “flattery” for Milwaukee College Prep, as it is modeled “on the highly successful Milwaukee College Prep School”.
