The Metro Classic Conference is a high school

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with its membership concentrated in southeastern

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. Formed in 2012 and consisting entirely of

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s, all members belong to the

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History

The Metro Classic Conference was founded in 2012, the result of a split between member schools in the larger Midwest Classic Conference. Eight schools left the conference that year: Catholic Central in Burlington, Dominican in

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in Greendale, Racine Lutheran, Shoreland Lutheran in Somers, St. Catherine's in

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and

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. St. Thomas More High School in

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, who had just left the

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, rounded out the loop's original membership roster at nine schools. The conference was named after the old

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, a WISAA-sponsored conference that existed from 1974 to 1997 and counted four former members (Dominican, St. Catherine's, St. Joseph and St. Thomas More) in the new conference. Aside from Burlington Catholic Central's exit from the conference to return to the Midwest Classic, the Metro Classic Conference has held the same membership throughout its existence.

Football

The Metro Classic Conference has sponsored football since its founding, with all members participating except for The Prairie School, which has never offered football as an interscholastic sport. Major changes came to the conference's football alignment after the

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and the WIAA unveiled a realignment plan for Wisconsin high school football to begin with the 2020 football season and run on a two-year cycle. Half of the conference's eight-member football lineup was retained, (Martin Luther, Shoreland Lutheran, St. Catherine's and St. Thomas More) with the other half (Catholic Central, Dominican, Racine Lutheran and St. Joseph) moving over to the Midwest Classic Conference. The four exiting schools were replaced by three schools from the Midwest Classic ( Lake Country Lutheran, St. Francis and

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) and Brown Deer of the

. St. Francis left the Metro Classic's football roster to return to the Midwest Classic Conference for the 2022-2023 competition cycle and were replaced with former Capitol Conference members Luther Prep of Watertown. This alignment is set to remain intact through at least the 2027 football season.

List of member schools

Current members

Current football-only members

Former members

Former football-only members

Membership timeline

Full members

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Football members

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:900 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:2012 till:2030 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:30 left:0 bottom:50 top:5 Colors = id:barcolor value:rgb(0.99,0.7,0.7) id:line value:black id:bg value:white PlotData= width:15 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from fontsize:m bar:1 color:lavender from:2012 till:2020 text:Burlington Catholic Central (2012-2019) bar:2 color:lavender from:2012 till:2030 text:Martin Luther (2012-present) bar:3 color:lavender from:2012 till:2020 text:Racine Lutheran (2012-2019) bar:4 color:lavender from:2012 till:2030 text:Shoreland Lutheran (2012-present) bar:5 color:lavender from:2012 till:2030 text:St. Catherine's (2012-present) bar:6 color:lavender from:2012 till:2020 text:St. Joseph (2012-2019) bar:7 color:lavender from:2012 till:2030 text:St. Thomas More (2012-present) bar:8 color:lavender from:2013 till:2020 text:Dominican (2013-2019) bar:9 color:lavender from:2020 till:2030 text:Brown Deer (2020-present) bar:10 color:lavender from:2020 till:2030 text:Lake Country Lutheran (2020-present) bar:11 color:lavender from:2020 till:2022 text:St. Francis (2020-2021) bar:12 color:lavender from:2020 till:2030 text:University School of Milwaukee (2020-present) bar:13 color:lavender from:2022 till:2030 text:Luther Prep (2022-present) ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:2 start:2012

Membership map

List of state champions

Fall sports

Winter sports

Spring sports

List of conference champions

Boys Basketball

Girls Basketball

Football

References

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