Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle

Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle is a middle school of close-knit scale in Chetek, Wisconsin, operated by Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Area School District, works with 204 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 46% below the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 381 students.

Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Area School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 924 students; Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle is among them.

On demographics, Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle shows that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

On the resource side, On paper, Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.2%.

Around the school, Barron County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,933 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Barron County's 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,199 students), Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle is one campus in the mix.

Chetek-Weyerhaeuser 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 Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle. On composite proficiency, Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 58.2%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle's enrollment has edged up 6% since 2018, when it stood at 192 (now 204). White enrollment moved from 90% to 97% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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