Belleville Middle
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 84 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Belleville Middle
Belleville Middle is a rural-scale 6-8 campus in Belleville, Wisconsin, run under Belleville School District. The school enrolls 111 students in grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 71% below typical.
Belleville Middle is one of 3 schools operated by Belleville School District, a district that hosts 936 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Belleville Middle lists that nearly all students (82%) are White. The remainder comes out to 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.
On the resource side, On paper, Belleville Middle has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Belleville Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Dane County's rate of about 32%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Belleville Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.8%, the actual is 69.7%, a residual of +5.8 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Dane County) reports that median household earnings sit near $89,975, 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Dane County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), of which Belleville Middle is one.
Nearest neighbor: Belleville High, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Belleville Middle at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 65.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a rural area.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Belleville Middle has shrank 20%, going from 138 students in 2018 to 111 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 today.
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