Enrollment
92
Middle
DISTRICT 177 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GIBRALTAR AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550522001456
Gibraltar Middle
3924 State Highway 42, Fish Creek, WI 54212 · (920) 868-3284 · Door County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE42-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL92 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 88% of Wisconsin public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
7.5:1
12 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
21 students
DISTRICT 26% · 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 | 30 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 36 | 39% |
| Grade 8 | 26 | 28% |
Student demographics
24%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 27% · 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
Gibraltar Middle→Gibraltar High
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Gibraltar Area School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
66.7%
WI avg 53.1% . -10.4pp since 2023
Math
67.8%
WI avg 54.8% . -3.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.7% | 67.8% |
| 2023-24 | 77.1% | 71.4% |
% 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
72.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.6%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 Gibraltar Middle
Gibraltar Middle's state test result (72.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gibraltar Middle this school | 92 | 22.8% | 72.7% |
| Belleville Middle Belleville | 111 | 22.5% | 69.7% |
| Rosholt Middle Rosholt | 78 | 21.8% | 50.1% |
| Williams Bay Middle Williams Bay | 145 | 22.8% | 52.3% |
| Deerfield Middle Deerfield | 114 | 24.6% | 61.1% |
| Stratford Middle Stratford | 163 | 24.5% | 69.6% |
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 Gibraltar Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin |
|---|---|---|
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 92 | #338 of 389 |
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
92
-32 (-26%) vs 2020
-45% since 2000-01, when it was 167
Student : Teacher
7.5:1
was 10.3:1
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 | 92 | 12.3 | 7.5:1 | 23% (21) |
| 2023-24 | 112 | 13.3 | 8.4:1 | 38% (43) |
| 2022-23 | 110 | 12.9 | 8.5:1 | 36% (40) |
| 2020-21 | 124 | 12 | 10.3:1 | 41% (51) |
| 2017-18 | 99 | 5.5 | 18.1:1 | 29% (29) |
| 2015-16 | 90 | 6 | 15.0:1 | 21% (19) |
| 2010-11 | 147 | 10 | 14.7:1 | 23% (34) |
| 2000-01 | 167 | 13 | 12.8:1 | 8% (13) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Gibraltar Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (99 to 92); teachers up 126% (5.5 to 12.3).
About Gibraltar Middle
Gibraltar Middle is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a middle-grades school in Fish Creek, Wisconsin. There are 92 students enrolled, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 76% below the 381-student average for middle schools in Wisconsin.
Across its 3 schools, Gibraltar Area School District enrolls 532 students. Gibraltar Middle is one of those schools.
Of every 100 students at Gibraltar Middle, about 87 are White. After that, the student body is 8% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 24, compared with 70 nationally.
For every teacher at Gibraltar Middle, there are about 7.5 students; the school has 12.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in Wisconsin, 12.8:1, is higher. There are 21 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 23% of enrollment. Among public schools in Door County, the average eligibility rate is 36%.
Among Wisconsin public middle schools, Gibraltar Middle outscored 88%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Gibraltar Middle is +9.1 points: 72.7% actual, 63.6% predicted.
Door County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $74,795 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Public schools in Door County number 16, with about 3,203 students.
Gibraltar High is the nearest public school to Gibraltar Middle, less than a tenth of a mile away. Counting only straight-line distance, 2 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 72.7% is below the 74.0% average for nearby schools.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Rural: Distant.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 26% decline, from 124 to 92. The ratio was 10.3:1 in 2020-21 and 7.5:1 in 2024-25.
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Door County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
30,445
Census ACS
Median income
$74,795
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
16
3,203 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Gibraltar Area School District
- Gibraltar ElementaryElementary · 265 students
- Gibraltar HighHigh · 175 students
Other schools in Fish Creek
- Gibraltar ElementaryElementary · 265 students
- Gibraltar HighHigh · 175 students
Nearby schools
- Gibraltar High0.0 mi · 175
- Gibraltar Elementary0.0 mi · 265
- Sevastopol High16.6 mi · 209
- Sevastopol Elementary16.6 mi · 230
- Sevastopol Middle16.6 mi · 140
- Sevastopol Pre-School16.6 mi · 27
Frequently asked questions
About Gibraltar MiddleHow large is Gibraltar Middle?
Gibraltar Middle enrolls approximately 92 students in grades 06-08.
Is Gibraltar Middle an elementary, middle, or high school?
Gibraltar Middle is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Gibraltar Middle?
Approximately 7.5:1 students per teacher at Gibraltar Middle.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Gibraltar Middle?
At Gibraltar Middle, the student body is approximately 87% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Gibraltar Middle public or private?
Gibraltar Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Gibraltar Area School District.
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