Enrollment
286
Middle
DISTRICT 279 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GALESVILLE-ETTRICK-TREMPEALEAU SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550496000537
Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle
19650 Prairie Ridge Ln, Galesville, WI 54630 · (608) 582-3500 · Trempealeau County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE42-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL286 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 68% of Wisconsin public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
12.2:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
67 students
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 42%
Community
0
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 | 95 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 103 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 88 | 31% |
Student demographics
22%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 20% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle→Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau High
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Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
60.5%
WI avg 53.1% . +4.4pp since 2023
Math
64.5%
WI avg 54.8% . -2.9pp since 2023
What 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.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.5% | 64.5% |
| 2023-24 | 56.1% | 67.4% |
% 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
65.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.3%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.6pp
above demographic expectation
What 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%.
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 Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle
Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle's state test result (65.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle this school | 286 | 23.4% | 65.8% |
| Poynette Middle Poynette | 271 | 21.4% | 67.3% |
| Campbellsport Middle Campbellsport | 258 | 24.4% | 69.9% |
| Valders Middle Valders | 259 | 22.4% | 60.3% |
| Viking Middle Woodville | 375 | 23.5% | 60.4% |
| Denmark Middle Denmark | 333 | 22.5% | 61.0% |
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 Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.8% | #89 of 323 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.5% | #118 of 327 ▼ 24 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.5% | #118 of 327 ▲ 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 286 | #211 of 389 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #81 of 265 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 21.9% | #209 of 265 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.4% | #243 of 323 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.5% | #133 of 176 |
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
286
-15 (-5%) vs 2020
+52% since 1990-91, when it was 188
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 286 | 23.4 | 12.2:1 | 23% (67) |
| 2023-24 | 275 | 21.8 | 12.6:1 | 24% (65) |
| 2022-23 | 279 | 21.8 | 12.8:1 | 26% (73) |
| 2020-21 | 301 | 20 | 15.1:1 | 28% (85) |
| 2017-18 | 306 | 20.3 | 15.1:1 | 24% (72) |
| 2015-16 | 314 | 20 | 15.7:1 | 29% (91) |
| 2010-11 | 308 | 20 | 15.4:1 | 31% (96) |
| 2000-01 | 228 | 14 | 16.3:1 | 16% (37) |
| 1990-91 | 188 | 16 | 11.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (306 to 286); teachers up 15% (20.3 to 23.4).
About Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle
Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle is a low-enrollment middle-grades school with an address in Galesville, Wisconsin. The school serves 286 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. The average among middle schools in Wisconsin is roughly 381 students; this school is 25% smaller than that.
Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District, which runs Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle, has 5 schools and 1,393 students.
At Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle, White students make up 88% of the student body. After that, the student body is 6% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. That is close to the 85% White share among all Trempealeau County residents. Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle has a diversity index of 22%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at the school number 23.4 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 12.2:1. Middle schools in Wisconsin average about 12.8:1, a similar figure. Roughly 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Trempealeau County average 47%.
Measured against Wisconsin public middle schools, Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle receives a B+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle would score about 63.3%. It scores 65.8%, 2.6 points above that figure.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Trempealeau County show that median household income is about $76,313, about 21% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle is one of 21 public schools in Trempealeau County, which together enroll about 5,893 students.
The shortest distance from Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle to another public school is about 0.4 miles, to Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau High. The five-mile area around Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle holds 2 other public schools. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle ranks 5th on proficiency.
Federal data place Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle in the Rural: Distant locale, which means it is in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count declined from 301 to 286. Federal data show the ratio falling from 15.1:1 to 12.2:1.
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Trempealeau County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
30,839
Census ACS
Median income
$76,313
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
21
5,893 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District
- Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau HighHigh · 411 students
- Trempealeau ElementaryElementary · 309 students
- Galesville ElementaryElementary · 263 students
- Ettrick ElementaryElementary · 124 students
Other schools in Galesville
- Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau HighHigh · 411 students
- Galesville ElementaryElementary · 263 students
Nearby schools
- Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau High0.4 mi · 411
- Galesville Elementary1.2 mi · 263
- Ettrick Elementary6.2 mi · 124
- Trempealeau Elementary7.8 mi · 309
- Prairie View Elementary8.0 mi · 466
- Holmen High9.3 mi · 1,242
Frequently asked questions
About Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau MiddleHow many students attend Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle?
Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle enrolls approximately 286 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle serve?
Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle is approximately 12.2:1 (23 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle?
Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle reports a student body of 88% White, 6% Hispanic, 0% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle?
Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle is overseen by Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District in Trempealeau County.
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