Flambeau Middle

Flambeau Middle, a tiny junior high in Tony, Wisconsin, part of Flambeau School District, educates 115 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 70% leaner than the state mean of about 381.

Flambeau School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 432 students; Flambeau Middle is among them.

On demographics, Flambeau Middle shows that nearly all students (98%) are White.

On the resource side, On paper, Flambeau Middle has 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 65% of students at Flambeau Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Flambeau Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.6%, the actual is 39.3%, a residual of +1.6 points.

Around the school, Rusk County reports that median household income runs about $59,944, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Rusk County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,547 students), Flambeau Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Flambeau Elementary, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Flambeau Middle. On composite proficiency, Flambeau Middle comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.4%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 9%: 126 students in 2018 compared to 115 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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