Enrollment
252
Middle
DISTRICT 213 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CEDAR GROVE-BELGIUM AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550243001629
Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle
50 W Union Ave, Cedar Grove, WI 53013 · (920) 668-8518 · Sheboygan County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE42-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL252 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 96% of Wisconsin public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public middle schools
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
57 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 42%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 75 | 30% |
| Grade 6 | 57 | 23% |
| Grade 7 | 66 | 26% |
| Grade 8 | 54 | 21% |
Student demographics
35%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 29% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle→Cedar Grove-Belgium High
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Cedar Grove-Belgium Area School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
75.4%
WI avg 53.1% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
83.7%
WI avg 54.8% . +6.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 75 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 up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.4% | 83.7% |
| 2023-24 | 72.4% | 77.2% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
77.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.8%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 64% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Wisconsin's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle
Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle's state test result (77.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle this school | 252 | 22.6% | 77.5% |
| New Holstein Middle New Holstein | 235 | 24.7% | 65.3% |
| East Troy Middle East Troy | 316 | 23.1% | 55.9% |
| Ozaukee Middle Fredonia | 174 | 22.4% | 71.6% |
| Denmark Middle Denmark | 333 | 22.5% | 61.0% |
| Lomira Middle Lomira | 223 | 29.1% | 68.7% |
Matched among Wisconsin middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Sheboygan County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.5% | #17 of 323 | #2 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.7% | #11 of 327 ▲ 25 | #2 of 10 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.4% | #25 of 327 ▲ 6 | #3 of 10 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 252 | #234 of 389 | #7 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #243 of 265 | #8 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.7% | #136 of 265 | #4 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.6% | #249 of 323 | #7 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.4% | #52 of 176 | #4 of 8 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
252
-14 (-5%) vs 2020
-13% since 2000-01, when it was 290
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 13.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 252 | 16 | 15.8:1 | 23% (57) |
| 2023-24 | 243 | 17.8 | 13.7:1 | 23% (57) |
| 2022-23 | 255 | 18.9 | 13.5:1 | 22% (57) |
| 2020-21 | 266 | 20 | 13.3:1 | 20% (52) |
| 2017-18 | 305 | 22 | 13.9:1 | 18% (55) |
| 2015-16 | 312 | 21 | 14.9:1 | 16% (51) |
| 2010-11 | 348 | 22 | 15.8:1 | 18% (63) |
| 2000-01 | 290 | 18 | 16.1:1 | 7% (20) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (305 to 252); teachers down 27% (22 to 16).
About Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle
A small middle school in Cedar Grove, Wisconsin, Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle is part of Cedar Grove-Belgium Area School District. The school's 252 students are in grades 5 through 8. Statewide, middle schools in Wisconsin average about 381 students each.
Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle is part of Cedar Grove-Belgium Area School District, where 4 schools serve 850 students.
Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle is 79% White by enrollment. Other groups include 15% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. The White share in Sheboygan County as a whole is similar, at about 83%. Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle's diversity index is 35%, against a US figure of 70%.
Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle operates with 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 15.8:1. On average, middle schools in Wisconsin have 12.8:1, compared with 15.8:1 here. Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle reports 23% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The rate at public schools in Sheboygan County averages 45%, higher than here.
The allk12 Grade for Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle is A+. Compared with Wisconsin public middle schools, the school scored higher than 96% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle would score about 63.8%. It scores 77.5%, a top-10% result among Wisconsin schools on BeatsExpectations.
Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle is located in Sheboygan County, where the median household income is $73,094, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Besides Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle, Sheboygan County has 51 other public schools.
The closest public school to Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle is Cedar Grove-Belgium Elementary, about 0.1 miles away. Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle is one of several public schools in the area, with 6 others within five miles. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle ranks 2nd on proficiency.
Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle falls in the Rural: Distant locale category, used for schools in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Enrollment is down 5% from 2020-21, when Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle had 266 students, to 2024-25, when it had 252. Students per teacher rose from 13.3 in 2020-21 to 15.8 in 2024-25.
Questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Sheboygan County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
117,991
Census ACS
Median income
$73,094
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
52
17,340 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cedar Grove-Belgium Area School District
- Cedar Grove-Belgium ElementaryElementary · 310 students
- Cedar Grove-Belgium HighHigh · 265 students
- Rocket AcademyHigh · 23 students
Other schools in Cedar Grove
- Cedar Grove-Belgium ElementaryElementary · 310 students
- Cedar Grove-Belgium HighHigh · 265 students
- Rocket AcademyHigh · 23 students
Nearby schools
- Cedar Grove-Belgium Elementary0.1 mi · 310
- Rocket Academy0.2 mi · 23
- Cedar Grove-Belgium High0.2 mi · 265
- Oostburg Elementary3.8 mi · 479
- Oostburg High3.9 mi · 328
- Oostburg Middle3.9 mi · 204
Frequently asked questions
About Cedar Grove-Belgium MiddleHow large is Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle?
Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle enrolls approximately 252 students in grades 05-08.
Is Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle an elementary, middle, or high school?
Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle is a middle school covering grades 05-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle is approximately 15.8:1 (16 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle?
Student demographics at Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle are roughly 79% White, 15% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle public or private?
Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Cedar Grove-Belgium Area School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.