Clintonville Middle
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Clintonville Middle
Set in Clintonville, Wisconsin, Clintonville Middle is a compact intermediate school, one of the schools within Clintonville School District. It caters to 224 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 41% leaner than the state mean of about 381.
Clintonville Middle is one of 3 schools operated by Clintonville School District, a district that serves 1,121 students overall.
Demographically, Clintonville Middle reports that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 16% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Native American. By comparison, Waupaca County as a whole is about 93% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Clintonville Middle has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Clintonville Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.1%, the actual is 52.9%, a residual of +4.8 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Waupaca County) records that the typical household earns roughly $72,830 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Waupaca County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,466 students), of which Clintonville Middle is one.
Clintonville High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Clintonville Middle. On composite proficiency, Clintonville Middle comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 44.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 32%: 330 students in 2018 compared to 224 in 2025.
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