Racine Unified School District
| Racine Unified School District | |
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Racine County, Wisconsin United States |
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| District information | |
| Grades | K through 12 |
| Superintendent | Dr. Lolli Haws |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 19,455 (approx.) |
| Teachers | 1,757 (approx.) |
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| Website | www |
Racine Unified School District (RUSD) is a school district serving the eastern portion of Racine County, Wisconsin. It encompasses a 100 sq mi (260 km2) area, and serves the city of Racine and six other towns and villages, which had a combined population of 139,193 at the 2010 census. RUSD is the fifth-largest school district in Wisconsin. It has 31 schools, with a student enrollment of 19,455. The district employs 1,757 teachers and 171 administrators.
On June 26, 1961, the City of Racine school system merged with 24 schools in the surrounding area to form the Unified School District No. 1 of Racine. The issue had been put to a referendum earlier that year, on April 4, and all seven municipalities of eastern Racine County – Caledonia, Elmwood Park, Mount Pleasant, North Bay, Racine, Sturtevant, and Wind Point – voted in favor of the unification. The district moved to desegregate its schools in 1975, in an effort which was regarded as widely successful and held up as a model to other cities. A pair of referendums in 2015 asked residents of Caledonia and Sturtevant whether they wanted to secede from RUSD and create separate school districts. Both narrowly failed, garnering a plurality but not a majority of the vote.
Racine Unified operates 31 schools across eastern Racine County. One, the Racine Early Education Center, is a preschool serving children under the age of five. 22 are elementary schools, educating children between kindergarten and fifth grade. There are seven middle schools, for sixth through eighth grades, and five high schools, for ninth through twelfth grades. Five of the district's schools cover more than one of these categories – Gifford, Jerstad-Agerholm, and Mitchell are combined elementary and middle schools, while the REAL School and Walden III are combined middle and high schools.
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