Highest K-12 mill rates: Milwaukee County, WI 2025-26
K-12 mill rates across 14 Milwaukee County, Wisconsin school districts, 2025-26. Shorewood School District leads at 11 mills. Wisconsin DPI; ranked by…
- Districts ranked
- 14
- Period
- 2025-26
- Publication floor
- 8 districts
- Tie rule
- Equal values share a rank; the next rank skips.
- County definition
- The county holding the largest share of the district's land area (NCES EDGE, 2024–25).
DPI Equalized Levy Rates, 2025-26: the district's total school levy per $1,000 of TIF-out equalized value (mills), before the state's school levy and lottery credits. This is a K-12 district's rate, comparable with other K-12 districts' rates.
Measure: Equalized school tax rate (K-12 district).
Source: Wisconsin DPI.
K-12 districts only; K-8 and union high school rates have their own keys.
Ranked districts
- 1. Shorewood School District — 11 mills
- 2. Saint Francis School District — 9.94 mills
- 3. Milwaukee School District — 9.64 mills
- 4. Wauwatosa School District — 8.56 mills
- 5. West Allis-West Milwaukee School District — 8.18 mills
- 6. Franklin Public School District — 7.83 mills
- 7. Brown Deer School District — 7.74 mills
- 8. Cudahy School District — 7.72 mills
- 9. Whitnall School District — 7.33 mills
- 10. South Milwaukee School District — 7.16 mills
- 11. Greendale School District — 7.02 mills
- 12. Oak Creek-Franklin Joint School District — 6.92 mills
- 13. Greenfield School District — 6.77 mills
- 14. Whitefish Bay School District — 6.12 mills