MCPS Fact Sheet 2009–10
Mission
Knowledge plus character pave the road to college and beyond.
Founding
Milwaukee College Prep was incorporated as a non-profit organization in the spring of 1997 as a gift to the Milwaukee community by Micky and Ron Sadoff and Junior Bridgeman. Mr. Robert Rauh has been the principal from the beginning and remains so today.
Type of Program Offered
At Milwaukee College Preparatory School, we are building on our legacy as one of the best schools in the city. Our school is known for its academic focus and commitment to excellence. Milwaukee College Prep is a school of uncompromising academic and social expectations. In addition to core curriculum of phonics, reading, poetry, vocabulary, and mathematics, Milwaukee College Prep offers physical education, Instructional Technology (IT), art and music classes once per week in elementary and twice per week in Middle School.
School Info
- MCPS is an independent charter (public) school, authorized by UW-Milwaukee. Any child who lives in the City of Milwaukee is eligible to attend at no cost.
- Single digit attrition rates for past 13 years.
- Middle School students take yearly trips to places such as Yellowstone Park, New York, New Orleans, Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
- Our students’ results best describe Milwaukee College Prep’s success. For example, most of our graduates are attending prestigious college prep high schools including Marquette High, Brookfield Academy, Dominican, Rufus King, Pius, Riverside, St. John’s Military Academy, the Thacher School in California and Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.
- 66% of our alums have graduated from high school and are attending colleges such as Howard University, Columbia University in Chicago, Savannah Institute of Art and Design and the University of Minnesota.
- A recent MCP graduating class earned over $700,000 in high school scholarship funds and are now enrolled at Phillips Exeter Academy (NH; Piney Woods School (MS); Brookfield Academy, Marquette High, Pius XI, Dominican, Rufus King and Riverside among others.
Results
Proficiency Rates – based on combined 3rd - 8th grade (2009 WCKE tests)
It is important to keep in perspective the setting that this success is taking place in. Statistically, our children (99% black, 66% from single parent homes and 82% low-income) have a very slim chance of success. According to a series of articles that the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ran in recognition of the anniversary of “Brown vs. Board of Education”:
- our state ranks lowest in the entire nation in percentage of black 8th graders whose performance was rated “below basic” in reading and math (National Center for Educational Statistics)
- we have the highest achievement gap between black and white students in the entire nation
- we have the highest incarceration rates in the nation for black males
- we have the highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation for black females
- blacks between the ages of 15 and 24 are 18 times more likely to die from homicide than their white peers, the national rate is seven times more likely - again Wisconsin leads the nation in this disparity
The road to success goes through college. The road to college begins at Milwaukee College Prep!