Ellsworth Middle

Ellsworth Middle, a mid-tier intermediate school in Ellsworth, Wisconsin, overseen by Ellsworth Community School District, educates 325 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Ellsworth Middle is one of 3 schools operated by Ellsworth Community School District, a district that educates 1,597 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Ellsworth Middle records that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ellsworth Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.8%; this one delivers 63.7%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Pierce County shows median household income runs about $92,109, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Pierce County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,419 students), Ellsworth Middle is one campus in the mix.

Ellsworth High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ellsworth Middle comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 59.0%.

Ellsworth Middle operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 19%: 400 students in 2018 compared to 325 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 94% to 88%. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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