Fennimore Middle

Fennimore Middle is a junior high of compact scale in Fennimore, Wisconsin, run under Fennimore Community School District, instructing 186 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 381 students each, so Fennimore Middle sits 51% below that benchmark.

Fennimore Community School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 821 students; Fennimore Middle is among them.

On the student-mix side, Fennimore Middle reports that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 8% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Fennimore Middle shows 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Fennimore Middle higher than the state norm the norm. Around 42% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fennimore Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.9%, the actual is 63.1%, a residual of +11.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, Grant County reports that median household income runs about $66,858, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Fennimore Middle is one of 32 public schools in Grant County (combined enrollment of about 6,838 students).

The closest other public school is Fennimore High, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Fennimore Middle. On composite proficiency, Fennimore Middle comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 56.7%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fennimore Middle has increased 3%, going from 181 students in 2018 to 186 in 2025.

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