Central Heights Middle

Central Heights Middle, a mid-tier junior high in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, run under Sun Prairie Area School District, instructs 560 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 47% above the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 381 students.

Sun Prairie Area School District comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 8,549 students; Central Heights Middle is among them.

In terms of who attends, Central Heights Middle logs that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 15% Black, 13% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 9% Asian. By comparison, Dane County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Central Heights Middle has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Central Heights Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Central Heights Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.8%, the actual is 52.2%, a residual of -4.6 points.

In the broader community, census data for Dane County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,975 per year, 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Central Heights Middle is one of 169 public schools in Dane County (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students).

Prairie Phoenix Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Central Heights Middle comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.6%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.