Coleman 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 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 51% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Wisconsin's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Coleman Middle
Located at 347 Business 141 N, in Coleman, Wisconsin, Coleman Middle is a tiny 6-8 campus that hosts 142 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Coleman School District. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 63% below typical.
Within Coleman School District, which oversees 3 schools and 741 students, Coleman Middle is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, Coleman Middle records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 94% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Coleman Middle sits in the top 10% of Wisconsin schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 51.3%; actual is 66.2%, +14.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Marinette County) records that median household earnings sit near $63,809, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Marinette County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,654 students), of which Coleman Middle is one.
Coleman High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Coleman Middle comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 53.2%.
Coleman Middle operates from a low-density location.
Looking at the recent track record. Coleman Middle's enrollment has edged down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 156 (now 142). The White share of enrollment fell from 95% to 85% over that span.
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