A startling number of students admit to vaping in just one Wisconsin school district.

On the first day back at school, Menomonee Falls High School parents will learn the results of a survey that their students just took. 46 percent of high schoolers have admitted that they tried e-cigarettes; 25 percent of those people say they vape on a regular basis. Five percent of middle schoolers even admitted to vaping.

Lisa Seebach is a local parent whose twin daughters will start school in the fall at Menomonee High School. Seebach has witnessed her children’s peers vaping in the community.

“You can’t even tell that it’s a smoking device or a vaping device. I don’t think it should be allowed. I don’t think they understand the full danger of it,” said Seebach.

The new information caught the school athletic director by surprise.

“It comes in a lot of different shapes and sizes, that’s for sure – a lot more than what I had thought. Some of them look like ballpoint pens. Some of them look very similar to a jump drive,” said Director of Athletics Brian Heimark.

Athletes sign a code of conduct not to do drugs, and that now includes vaping. Now the district wants the entire community to be on notice.

“What went through my head is ‘We’ve got to get information out,'” said Director of Pupil Services Kathy Young.

They plan to send out email blasts to parents as well as post facts on social media and tape up posters across the high school to get everyone’s attention because younger people can get addicted to nicotine faster.

“That’s because the brain is still under development,” said Young.

After 16 hospitalizations linked to vaping in Wisconsin, state leaders are determined not to have one of their students become the next statistic.