Alexander Middle

Located at 540 Birch St, in Nekoosa, Wisconsin, Alexander Middle is a mid-sized 6-8 campus that caters to 326 students (grades 4 through 8), overseen by Nekoosa School District.

Within Nekoosa School District, which oversees 6 schools and 1,197 students, Alexander Middle is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Alexander Middle logs that White students make up the majority at 77%; the rest reads as 15% Hispanic, 5% Native American. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 91%.

On the resource side, Alexander Middle records 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Wood County (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Alexander Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 45.2%, a residual of +5.2 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Wood County indicate median household income runs about $67,989, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Alexander Middle is one of 32 public schools in Wood County (combined enrollment of about 10,849 students).

The closest other public school is Central Wisconsin STEM Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Alexander Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Alexander Middle at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 45.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Alexander Middle's enrollment has decreased 11% since 2018, when it stood at 366 (now 326). The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 11% to 15% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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