De Soto Middle

De Soto Middle, a micro-enrollment intermediate school in De Soto, Wisconsin, part of De Soto Area School District, educates 101 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 73% leaner than typical.

De Soto Area School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 440 students. De Soto Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, De Soto Middle logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%); the rest reads as 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, De Soto Middle has 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Vernon County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, De Soto Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.7%, the actual is 53.2%, a residual of +3.5 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Vernon County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $71,893 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Vernon County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,669 students), De Soto Middle is one campus in the mix.

De Soto Virtual School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around De Soto Middle. On composite proficiency, De Soto Middle comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 69.1%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at De Soto Middle has edged down 7%, going from 109 students in 2018 to 101 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.