Crandon Middle

Crandon Middle, a close-knit junior high in Crandon, Wisconsin, part of Crandon School District, serves 181 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 52% smaller than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 381 students.

Across the 3 schools in Crandon School District (803 students total), Crandon Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Crandon Middle shows that the largest single group is White, at 55% of enrollment. Other groups include 30% Native American, 14% multiracial. By comparison, Forest County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 41% of students at Crandon Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Crandon Middle is in the bottom 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 52.6%; Crandon Middle posts 36.1%, -16.5 points below that line.

Around the school, Forest County reports that the typical household earns roughly $61,071 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Crandon Middle is one of 7 public schools in Forest County (combined enrollment of about 1,483 students).

Nearest neighbor: Crandon High, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Crandon Middle comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.1%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Crandon Middle's enrollment has shrank 3% since 2018, when it stood at 186 (now 181). Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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