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D C Everest Junior High
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 D C Everest Junior High
As a sprawling high school in Weston, Wisconsin, D C Everest Junior High teaches 848 students from grades 8 through 9, part of D C Everest Area School District. That puts it 79% larger than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 475 students.
D C Everest Area School District comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 5,847 students; D C Everest Junior High is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, D C Everest Junior High shows that 69% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school reports 17% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.6:1 average. Roughly 34% of students at D C Everest Junior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
After controlling for student poverty, D C Everest Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.8%, the actual is 58.1%, a residual of +1.3 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Marathon County indicate median household earnings sit near $77,884, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. D C Everest Junior High is one of 52 public schools in Marathon County (combined enrollment of about 18,592 students).
The closest other public school is D C Everest High, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts D C Everest Junior High at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 54.9%.
D C Everest Junior High operates from a bedroom-community location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 5%: 891 students in 2018 compared to 848 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 81% to 69% over that span.
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