Amery Middle

Located at 501 Minneapolis Ave S, in Amery, Wisconsin, Amery Middle is a modestly sized junior high that instructs 275 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Amery School District. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 381 students each, so Amery Middle sits 28% below that benchmark.

Amery School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,252 students; Amery Middle is among them.

In terms of who attends, Amery Middle logs that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 37% 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, Amery Middle sits in the top 10% of Wisconsin schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 54.9%; actual is 71.2%, +16.4 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Polk County put median household income runs about $77,219, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Polk County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,126 students), of which Amery Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Amery Intermediate, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Amery Middle. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Amery Middle ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 58.1%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 22%: 353 students in 2018 compared to 275 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 93% to 88% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.