Vel R Phillips School
Wauwatosa, WI · High School
Vel R Phillips School is a high school in Wauwatosa, WI with 106 students enrolled and a 74% proficiency rate. Part of Wauwatosa School District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
About This School
Vel R Phillips School is a high school located in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. The school serves 106 students. The student-to-teacher ratio is 6.2:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 74% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 92% graduation rate.
3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Vel R Phillips School is part of the Wauwatosa School District in Wisconsin.
How This School Compares
Vel R Phillips School has 106 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Wauwatosa School District (408 students). Its 74% proficiency rate is 10 percentage points above the district average of 64%. Compared to the Wisconsin state average of 53%, the school performs 21 points higher. With a 6.2:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Vel R Phillips School has 106 students enrolled. The student-to-teacher ratio is 6.2:1.
According to EDFacts data, 74% of students at Vel R Phillips School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Vel R Phillips School has a 92% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Vel R Phillips School is part of the Wauwatosa School District in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.