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Enrollment
587
Middle
DISTRICT 607 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JANESVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550702000758
Edison Middle
1649 S Chatham St, Janesville, WI 53546 · (608) 743-5900 · Rock County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL587 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 54% of Wisconsin public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public middle schools
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
358 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 42%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 193 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 205 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 189 | 32% |
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
52.2%
WI avg 53.1% . +4.1pp since 2023
Math
48.7%
WI avg 54.8% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.2% | 48.7% |
| 2023-24 | 48.1% | 43.7% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
50.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.2%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Edison Middle
Edison Middle's state test result (50.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edison Middle this school | 587 | 61.0% | 50.3% |
| Wisconsin Dells Middle School Wisconsin Dells | 374 | 58.3% | 55.4% |
| Parkside School Wautoma | 480 | 60.0% | 50.0% |
| Franklin Middle Janesville | 486 | 66.5% | 34.4% |
| Woodworth Middle Fond du Lac | 413 | 54.0% | 49.5% |
| Maplewood Middle Menasha | 676 | 55.9% | 44.0% |
Matched among Wisconsin middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Edison Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Rock County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.3% | #227 of 323 | #8 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.7% | #237 of 327 ▲ 23 | #8 of 12 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.2% | #199 of 327 ▲ 26 | #8 of 12 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 587 | #89 of 389 | #3 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.7:1 | #61 of 265 | #2 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.6% | #63 of 265 | #4 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.0% | #37 of 323 | #4 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.7% | #74 of 79 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
587
-49 (-8%) vs 2020
+7% since 1990-91, when it was 547
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
was 12.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 587 | 50.3 | 11.7:1 | 61% (358) |
| 2023-24 | 597 | 51.5 | 11.6:1 | 64% (381) |
| 2022-23 | 611 | 46 | 13.3:1 | 61% (370) |
| 2020-21 | 636 | 50 | 12.7:1 | 62% (397) |
| 2017-18 | 583 | 46.9 | 12.4:1 | 50% (293) |
| 2015-16 | 633 | 47 | 13.5:1 | 59% (374) |
| 2010-11 | 695 | 52 | 13.4:1 | 59% (412) |
| 2000-01 | 788 | 60 | 13.1:1 | 19% (152) |
| 1990-91 | 547 | 44 | 12.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Edison Middle.
Since 2017-18: students up 1% (583 to 587); teachers up 7% (46.9 to 50.3).
About Edison Middle
This page covers Edison Middle, a high-enrollment middle-grades school in Janesville, Wisconsin. Enrollment stands at 587 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 54% bigger than the 381-student average for middle schools in Wisconsin.
Janesville School District counts 9,355 students in its 22 schools, and Edison Middle is one of them.
The largest group at Edison Middle is White students, at 64%. Enrollment also includes 22% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 5% Black. Among people living in Rock County, the White share is about 82%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Edison Middle scores 54%.
The school had 50.3 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 11.7:1. The school's 11.7:1 compares with an average of 12.8:1 for middle schools in Wisconsin. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 61%. That is higher than the 47% average for public schools in Rock County.
Edison Middle holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 54% of Wisconsin public middle schools.
Edison Middle is 10.0 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (50.3% versus 40.2%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Wisconsin.
Census data for Rock County show the median household earns about $75,673 a year, roughly 26% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Edison Middle, Rock County has 65 public schools.
A public school about 0.4 miles away, Lincoln Elementary, is the closest to Edison Middle. Edison Middle has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 44.3%, lower than Edison Middle's 50.3%.
Locale data from NCES put Edison Middle inside a principal city with a population under 100,000 (City: Small).
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 587, compared with 636 in 2020-21. The ratio of students to teachers went from 12.7:1 to 11.7:1 over the same years.
People can post here about open houses, carpools, and field trips and other school topics. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Rock County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
164,350
Census ACS
Median income
$75,673
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
65
25,542 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Janesville School District
- Craig HighHigh · 1,400 students
- Parker HighHigh · 1,272 students
- Marshall MiddleMiddle · 747 students
- Franklin MiddleMiddle · 486 students
- Roosevelt ElementaryElementary · 412 students
- Washington ElementaryElementary · 410 students
Other schools in Janesville
- Craig HighHigh · 1,400 students
- Parker HighHigh · 1,272 students
- Marshall MiddleMiddle · 747 students
- Franklin MiddleMiddle · 486 students
- Roosevelt ElementaryElementary · 412 students
- Washington ElementaryElementary · 410 students
Other Edison Middle schools
11 other US public schools in 10 states are named Edison Middle. Edison Middle is the 6th largest of the 12.
- Edison MiddleGreen Bay, WI · 1,121 students
- Edison Middle School - 06Sioux Falls, SD · 937 students
- Edison Middle SchoolMeriden, CT · 773 students
- Edison Middle SchoolChampaign, IL · 647 students
- Edison Middle SchoolWheaton, IL · 635 students
Nearby schools
- Lincoln Elementary0.4 mi · 291
- Van Buren Elementary0.5 mi · 408
- Jackson Elementary1.1 mi · 339
- Wilson Elementary1.3 mi · 256
- Preschool 4 Janesville1.6 mi · 345
- Rock River Charter School1.9 mi · 267
Frequently asked questions
About Edison MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Edison Middle?
Edison Middle enrolls approximately 587 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Edison Middle serve?
Edison Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Edison Middle?
Approximately 11.7:1 students per teacher at Edison Middle.
What is the student diversity at Edison Middle?
Student demographics at Edison Middle are roughly 64% White, 22% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Edison Middle?
Edison Middle is overseen by Janesville School District in Rock County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.