Aug Prep’s north campus will fill ‘opportunity gap’ for thousands of kids in years ahead

A family’s huge bet on bettering the lives of thousands of Milwaukee children is moving a step closer to launch as St. Augustine Preparatory School starts taking names for its $104 million north campus in Glendale.

The project takes place in a time of rising parental demand for better options in Milwaukee. Even as the number of school-age children in Wisconsin fell, attendance at independent schools via the state’s parental choice program rose 6.9 percent last year.

This week, St. Marcus Lutheran School, long a mainstay on Milwaukee’s north side, opened a $25 million expansion to accommodate 200 more students.

Further north, it was just two years ago that the philanthropists behind St. August

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