Where Do Students Attend Private and Public Schools?
Tables 1 through 4 present geographic data based on the enrollment by school district in private and public schools in Wisconsin. We focus on the five largest cities, the Milwaukee and Madison suburbs, and the rest of the state. In tables 1 through 3, enrollments are broken down by kindergarten through eighth grade and high school.4 Table 1 provides percentage breakdowns; table 2 a set of ratios of private school to public school percentages; and table 3 the exact enrollment figures. Table 4 provides average household income and wealth characteristics of districts aggregated by the relevant categories. Figures in table 1 should be read as the percentage of either public or private school enrollment in the relevant category. For example, the figure in the upper left-hand cell-for Milwaukee, K-8, percent in public school-means that 12.27 percent of the public school K-8 students in 1993-94 were enrolled in MPS. This can be contrasted with the fact that only 8.93% of the high school stude
