Chippewa Falls Middle

Chippewa Falls Middle, a well-populated middle-grades school in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, overseen by Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District, educates 999 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 162% bigger than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 381 students.

Across the 9 schools in Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District (4,574 students total), Chippewa Falls Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Chippewa Falls Middle reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%); the rest reads as 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 2% Asian.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Chippewa Falls Middle has 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Chippewa Falls Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.8%, the actual is 56.0%, a residual of +3.2 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Chippewa County put the typical household earns roughly $74,680 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Chippewa County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,353 students), Chippewa Falls Middle is one campus in the mix.

Chippewa Falls High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chippewa Falls Middle. On composite proficiency, Chippewa Falls Middle comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 57.7%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chippewa Falls Middle has contracted 8%, going from 1,090 students in 2018 to 999 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, members of the Chippewa Falls Middle community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.