Clark Street Community School

Clark Street Community School, a minimally staffed 9-12 campus in Middleton, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District, enrolls 108 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 77% leaner than the state mean of about 475.

Clark Street Community School is one of 12 schools operated by Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District, a district that enrolls 7,167 students overall.

On demographics, Clark Street Community School logs that 73% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 11% multiracial, 6% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Clark Street Community School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.7%; this one delivers 48.7%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Dane County shows median household income runs about $89,975, roughly 55% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dane County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), of which Clark Street Community School is one.

Middleton High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Clark Street Community School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Clark Street Community School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 68.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area. Clark Street Community School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 15%: 94 students in 2018 compared to 108 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 10.0:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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