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The highest-poverty public middle schools in Dane County, Wisconsin

This ranking covers the highest-poverty public middle schools in Dane County, Wisconsin, drawn from 33 qualifying public middle schools. Black Hawk Middle leads the list at 70.3%, against a median of 27.5% across the ranked schools.

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Schools ranked

Dane County, Wisconsin

Top % FRL

70.3%

Median % FRL

27.5%

HIGHEST POVERTY · DANE COUNTY, WISCONSIN

#	School	City	District	Level	Students	% FRL
1	Black Hawk Middle	Madison, WI	Madison Metropolitan School District	Middle	300	70.3%
2	James Wright Middle	Madison, WI	Madison Metropolitan School District	Middle	245	68.2%
3	Sherman Middle	Madison, WI	Madison Metropolitan School District	Middle	400	60.0%
4	Whitehorse Middle	Madison, WI	Madison Metropolitan School District	Middle	415	59.0%
5	Ezekiel Gillespie Middle School	Madison, WI	Madison Metropolitan School District	Middle	462	53.2%
6	Sennett Middle	Madison, WI	Madison Metropolitan School District	Middle	570	52.6%
7	Cherokee Heights Middle	Madison, WI	Madison Metropolitan School District	Middle	526	48.3%
8	Toki Middle	Madison, WI	Madison Metropolitan School District	Middle	487	46.0%
9	O'Keeffe Middle	Madison, WI	Madison Metropolitan School District	Middle	434	42.9%
10	Marshall Middle	Marshall, WI	Marshall School District	Middle	128	39.8%
11	Prairie View Middle	Sun Prairie, WI	Sun Prairie Area School District	Middle	699	35.9%
12	Central Heights Middle	Sun Prairie, WI	Sun Prairie Area School District	Middle	560	33.9%
13	Patrick Marsh Middle	Sun Prairie, WI	Sun Prairie Area School District	Middle	581	29.1%
14	River Bluff Middle	Stoughton, WI	Stoughton Area School District	Middle	569	28.3%
15	Wisconsin Heights Middle	Mazomanie, WI	Wisconsin Heights School District	Middle	153	28.1%
16	Nikolay Middle	Cambridge, WI	Cambridge School District	Middle	203	28.1%
17	Spring Harbor Middle	Madison, WI	Madison Metropolitan School District	Middle	269	27.5%
18	Savanna Oaks Middle	Fitchburg, WI	Verona Area School District	Middle	360	26.7%
19	Badger Ridge Middle	Verona, WI	Verona Area School District	Middle	776	26.0%
20	Deerfield Middle	Deerfield, WI	Deerfield Community School District	Middle	114	24.6%
21	Belleville Middle	Belleville, WI	Belleville School District	Middle	111	22.5%
22	Kromrey Middle	Middleton, WI	Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District	Middle	1,230	20.7%
23	Glacial Drumlin School	Cottage Grove, WI	Monona Grove School District	Middle	766	20.0%
24	De Forest Middle	De Forest, WI	De Forest Area School District	Middle	602	19.8%
25	Hamilton Middle	Madison, WI	Madison Metropolitan School District	Middle	790	19.4%
26	Indian Mound Middle	McFarland, WI	McFarland School District	Middle	534	18.0%
27	Oregon Middle	Oregon, WI	Oregon School District	Middle	613	17.9%
28	Harvest Intermediate School	DeForest, WI	De Forest Area School District	Middle	966	17.4%
29	Mount Horeb Middle	Mount Horeb, WI	Mount Horeb Area School District	Middle	503	14.7%
30	Glacier Creek Middle	Cross Plains, WI	Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District	Middle	924	14.3%
31	Rome Corners Intermediate	Oregon, WI	Oregon School District	Middle	463	14.3%
32	Waunakee Middle	Waunakee, WI	Waunakee Community School District	Middle	667	12.6%
33	Waunakee Intermediate	Waunakee, WI	Waunakee Community School District	Middle	661	9.5%

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