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Edgerton 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 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 Edgerton Middle
Edgerton Middle, a mid-tier middle-grades school in Edgerton, Wisconsin, part of Edgerton School District, instructs 413 students, covering grades 6 through 8.
Edgerton School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,935 students. Edgerton Middle is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Edgerton Middle records that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 29 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. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Rock County (around 47%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
With demographic context factored in, Edgerton Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.0%; this one delivers 64.8%.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Rock County indicate the typical household earns roughly $75,673 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Rock County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,542 students), of which Edgerton Middle is one.
Edgerton High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Edgerton Middle. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Edgerton Middle ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 62.3%.
Edgerton Middle operates from a small-town location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 16%: 355 students in 2018 compared to 413 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.
On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Rock County at a glance
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