Kenosha School District is Failing our Community
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KENOSHA SCHOOL DISTRICT BY THE NUMBERS
KUSD's education challenges aren't just headlines. They're measurable and persistent. Here is the data behind the school districts educational failures.
Just 29% of Kenosha Unified students are proficient in math, meaning more than 70% are not. Wisconsin's statewide average is roughly 40%. Your kids are falling behind, and the district is asking for more of your money anyway
Only 33% of Kenosha Unified students test proficient in reading, below the state average of roughly 38%. That's not a rounding error. That's a generation of kids being passed through a system that isn't teaching them to read.
KUSD's own stated academic goal is to raise the percentage of students scoring at median-or-advanced in reading and math by only 12% by 2027, and it remains to be seen whether even that modest goal will be met.
KUSD eliminated nearly 220 full-time positions — including 132 teaching positions — while closing six schools, and is now weighing cuts to roughly 34 more middle/high school teacher positions and 6 elementary positions.
What's Driving It
Policy Failures
Discipline Has Collapsed District-Wide
Kenosha teachers describe a district where student behavior goes unchecked. One employee review put it bluntly: discipline is "terrible district wide," with inner-city schools in particular described as places where kids "do whatever they want with no repercussions." That's not a resourcing problem — it's a failure of will from district leadership to set and enforce standards.
The District Is Bleeding Its Own Teachers
KUSD staff describe high turnover driven by conditions the district itself created: preparation time that isn't honored — one review cited more than 2.5 weeks of lost prep time per year — combined with being "overworked and underpaid." When a district can't retain the teachers already in its buildings, no amount of new referendum money fixes the classroom.
Leadership Is Invisible to the People Doing the Work
Staff reviews describe rarely seeing district leaders at all, alongside a hiring and HR process employees call frustrating and poorly run. A district asking taxpayers for hundreds of millions of dollars is being run by an administration that, by its own employees' account, isn't present where the actual work happens.
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