Denmark 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 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Denmark Middle
Located at 450 N Wall St, in Denmark, Wisconsin, Denmark Middle is an average-sized middle-grades school that serves 333 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Denmark School District.
Across the 5 schools in Denmark School District (1,827 students total), Denmark Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Denmark Middle logs that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Denmark Middle has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Denmark Middle higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 23% of students at Denmark Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Brown County (around 39%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Denmark Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.0%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Brown County indicate median household income runs about $79,649, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Denmark Middle is one of 86 public schools in Brown County (combined enrollment of about 42,385 students).
Nearest neighbor: Viking Academy, around 0.0 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Denmark Middle ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 5%: 350 students in 2018 compared to 333 in 2025.
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