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Alumni: what's one memory from Greendale Middle that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
617
Middle
DISTRICT 424 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREENDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550591002255
Greendale Middle
6800 Schoolway, Greendale, WI 53129 · (414) 423-2800 · Milwaukee County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL617 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% 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
14.3:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
167 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 42%
Community
1
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 | 198 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 207 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 212 | 34% |
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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
Greendale Middle→Greendale High
Based on grade levels within Greendale School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
70.7%
WI avg 53.1% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
66.9%
WI avg 54.8% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.7% | 66.9% |
| 2023-24 | 67.7% | 63.9% |
% 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
66.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.0%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 Greendale Middle
Greendale Middle's state test result (66.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greendale Middle this school | 617 | 27.1% | 66.9% |
| Whitnall Middle Greenfield | 558 | 27.8% | 63.3% |
| Oak Creek East Middle Oak Creek | 935 | 25.6% | 62.2% |
| Savanna Oaks Middle Fitchburg | 360 | 26.7% | 59.8% |
| Badger Ridge Middle Verona | 776 | 26.0% | 56.1% |
| Patrick Marsh Middle Sun Prairie | 581 | 29.1% | 54.9% |
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 Greendale Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Milwaukee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.9% | #80 of 323 | #6 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.9% | #103 of 327 ▲ 22 | #8 of 27 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.7% | #50 of 327 ▲ 5 | #7 of 27 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 617 | #80 of 389 | #6 of 28 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #205 of 265 | #16 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.0% | #70 of 265 | #14 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.1% | #221 of 323 | #20 of 26 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.8% | #174 of 176 | #20 of 20 |
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
617
-19 (-3%) vs 2020
+72% since 1990-91, when it was 359
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 617 | 43.3 | 14.3:1 | 27% (167) |
| 2023-24 | 613 | 46 | 13.3:1 | 33% (203) |
| 2022-23 | 621 | 46 | 13.5:1 | 28% (174) |
| 2020-21 | 636 | 44 | 14.4:1 | 32% (204) |
| 2017-18 | 622 | 41.3 | 15.1:1 | 23% (142) |
| 2015-16 | 620 | 42 | 14.8:1 | 27% (167) |
| 2010-11 | 619 | 39 | 15.9:1 | 20% (126) |
| 2000-01 | 501 | 35 | 14.3:1 | 9% (47) |
| 1990-91 | 359 | 31 | 11.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Greendale Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (622 to 617); teachers up 5% (41.3 to 43.3).
About Greendale Middle
Greendale Middle is a large middle-grades school in Greendale, Wisconsin, under Greendale School District. Classes run from 6 through 8, and the school has 617 students. The average for middle schools in Wisconsin is about 381 students, so this school is 62% larger than average.
Greendale School District runs 6 schools with a combined 2,546 students. Greendale Middle is one of them.
White students make up a majority at Greendale Middle, at 66%. The remaining shares are 19% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. Census estimates put the White share of Milwaukee County's population at about 51%. Pick two students at random and there is a 52% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Its teaching staff equals 43.3 full-time positions, a ratio of 14.3:1. That is higher than the 12.8:1 average for middle schools in Wisconsin. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 27%. That is 37 points below the 64% average for public schools in Milwaukee County.
Greendale Middle is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 78% of Wisconsin public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Greendale Middle's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (66.9%) and its predicted rate (61.0%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Wisconsin schools.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Milwaukee County show that the median household income is $64,435, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. Greendale Middle is one of 284 public schools in the county.
The nearest other public school, Canterbury Elementary, is less than a tenth of a mile away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Greendale Middle ranks 4th of 8 on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 617 students in 2024-25, 19 fewer than the 636 it had in 2020-21.
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Milwaukee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
926,331
Census ACS
Median income
$64,435
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
284
122,496 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Greendale School District
- Greendale HighHigh · 882 students
- Canterbury ElementaryElementary · 350 students
- Highland View ElementaryElementary · 336 students
- College Park ElementaryElementary · 273 students
- Time 4 Learning Charter SchoolElementary · 88 students
Other schools in Greendale
- Greendale HighHigh · 882 students
- Canterbury ElementaryElementary · 350 students
- Highland View ElementaryElementary · 336 students
- College Park ElementaryElementary · 273 students
- Time 4 Learning Charter SchoolElementary · 88 students
Other Greendale Middle schools
One other US public school is named Greendale Middle. Greendale Middle is the largest of the 2.
- Greendale Middle SchoolLawrenceburg, IN · 437 students
Nearby schools
- Canterbury Elementary0.1 mi · 350
- Greendale High0.4 mi · 882
- College Park Elementary1.0 mi · 273
- Time 4 Learning Charter School1.2 mi · 88
- Highland View Elementary1.2 mi · 336
- Greenfield High1.3 mi · 1,140
Frequently asked questions
About Greendale MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Greendale Middle?
Greendale Middle enrolls approximately 617 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Greendale Middle serve?
Greendale Middle serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Greendale Middle?
Approximately 14.3:1 students per teacher at Greendale Middle.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Greendale Middle?
At Greendale Middle, the student body is approximately 66% White, 19% Hispanic, 3% Black, 6% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Greendale Middle public or private?
Greendale Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Greendale School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.