Amherst Middle

Amherst Middle is a modestly sized middle school in Amherst, Wisconsin, overseen by Tomorrow River School District. The school educates 257 students in grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 381 students each, so Amherst Middle sits 33% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Tomorrow River School District, which oversees 5 schools and 1,198 students, Amherst Middle is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Amherst Middle logs that nearly all students (91%) are White. The remainder comes out to 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Portage County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, Amherst Middle has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 28% of students at Amherst Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Amherst Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.0%.

In the surrounding community, Portage County reports that median household earnings sit near $76,070, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Portage County runs 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,217 students), of which Amherst Middle is one.

Amherst High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Amherst Middle. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Amherst Middle ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 55.5%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 23%: 335 students in 2018 compared to 257 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 96% to 91% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.