Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau 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 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 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 down about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle
Set in Galesville, Wisconsin, Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle is a close-knit middle school, part of Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District. It hosts 286 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 381 students each, so Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle sits 25% below that benchmark.
Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,393 students; Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle is among them.
On the student-mix side, Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle shows that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Trempealeau County (around 47%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 65.8%.
Across the wider county, Trempealeau County reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,313 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Trempealeau County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,893 students), of which Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle is one.
Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 60.9%.
The school occupies a rural site.
Over the past 7-year window. Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle's enrollment has contracted 7% since 2018, when it stood at 306 (now 286). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 93% to 88%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.
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