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Milwaukee Public Schools

Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) is the largest school district in Wisconsin.

Milwaukee Public Schools
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The place

Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) is the largest school district in Wisconsin. As of the 2023–24 school year, MPS served 66,864 students in 154 schools and had 9,500 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff positions. A publicly elected school board, the Milwaukee Board of School Directors, provides direction and oversight, with a superintendent heading the organization's administration.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Milwaukee Public Schools

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Marquette University

    Marquette University is a private Jesuit research university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It was established as Marquette College on August 28, 1881, by John Henni, the first Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.

    4 km · private university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    American Family Field

    American Family Field, known as Miller Park until 2020, is a retractable roof stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Located southwest of the intersection of Interstate 94 and Brewers Boulevard, it is the ballpark of Major League Baseball's Milwaukee Brewers.

    2.4 km · baseball stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Pettit National Ice Center

    The Pettit National Ice Center is an indoor ice skating facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, featuring two international-size ice rinks and a 400-meter speed skating oval. Located adjacent to Wisconsin State Fair Park, the center opened on January 1, 1993, and was named for Milwaukee philanthropists Jane and Lloyd Pettit.

    3.9 km · building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Wisconsin Lutheran College

    Wisconsin Lutheran College is a private liberal arts college in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It has an enrollment of about 1,100 students.

    3.7 km · Private liberal arts college near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Tripoli Shrine Temple

    The Tripoli Shrine Temple is a Shriners temple built 1926–28 in the Concordia neighborhood of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The building's design incorporates Moorish and Indian elements, somewhat resembling the Taj Mahal in India.

    2.5 km · historic building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Lloyd Street Grounds

    Lloyd Street Grounds was a baseball park located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was used by two different professional baseball clubs during 1895–1903.

    3.9 km · Baseball park in Wisconsin, US · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Second Church of Christ, Scientist

    The St. Luke Emanuel Missionary Baptist Church, formally Second Church of Christ, Scientist, is a historic Neoclassical-styled church built in 1913 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

    2.6 km · church building in Milwaukee, United States of America · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Holy Cross Cemetery

    Holy Cross Cemetery & Mausoleum, is a Roman Catholic cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The cemetery was established in 1909 and has 135,000 burials in graves and about 15,000 in crypts and niches.

    4 km · cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Washington Park

    Washington Park originally called West Park is a park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the United States. From 1892–1958 the park was home to the Milwaukee County Zoo.

    1.1 km · urban park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    David W. Howie House

    The David W. Howie House is a 2.5-story Queen Anne-styled house built in 1886 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, still very intact. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 16, 1986.

    2.4 km · house in Milwaukee, Wisconsin · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Milwaukee Public Schools

Airports
General Mitchell (MKE), 13 km · Chicago O'Hare (ORD), 119 km · Chicago Midway (MDW), 142 km
  • Chicago → Milwaukee Public Schools
    135 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · $12–16
  • Grand Rapids → Milwaukee Public Schools
    184 km · quickest by road, 6h 31m · $34–47
  • Detroit → Milwaukee Public Schools
    413 km · quickest by road, 9h 7m · $48–65
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Milwaukee Public Schools

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Milwaukee Public Schools. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe Root River Line goes through Greenfield Park and is either off-road, through low-traffic parkways or residential streets.

From Wikivoyage: West Allis, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    1,256 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,544 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,710 km
  4. 04
    Port Townsend and the Olympic PeninsulaUS

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    2,740 km
  5. 052,793 km

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Around it

Next door to Milwaukee Public Schools

Milwaukee Public Schools is 6 km from Milwaukee, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.