Adams-Friendship Middle

Adams-Friendship Middle, a mid-sized middle-grades school in Adams, Wisconsin, part of Adams-Friendship Area School District, instructs 338 students, covering grades 5 through 8.

Across the 3 schools in Adams-Friendship Area School District (1,270 students total), Adams-Friendship Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Adams-Friendship Middle records that 78% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Adams County as a whole is about 89% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Adams-Friendship Middle has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Adams-Friendship Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.4%, the actual is 36.5%, a residual of -2.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Adams County put median household income runs about $59,442, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Adams County's 3 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,270 students), Adams-Friendship Middle is one campus in the mix.

Adams-Friendship Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Adams-Friendship Middle comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.9%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 331 students in 2018 compared to 338 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 90% to 78%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 8.5:1 in 2025.

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