Barneveld Middle School
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
About Barneveld Middle School
Barneveld Middle School is a 6-8 campus of tiny scale in Barneveld, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Barneveld School District, educateing 96 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 75% smaller than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 381 students.
Within Barneveld School District, which oversees 3 schools and 443 students, Barneveld Middle School is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Barneveld Middle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Iowa County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Barneveld Middle School has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 14% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Iowa County runs at roughly 30%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Barneveld Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 69.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 66.0%.
In the surrounding community, census data for Iowa County shows median household earnings sit near $82,182, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Barneveld Middle School is one of 15 public schools in Iowa County (combined enrollment of about 3,373 students).
Barneveld High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Barneveld Middle School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 66.5%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
On the community side, the feed for Barneveld Middle School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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