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Greenfield Middle
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Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Greenfield Middle
Greenfield Middle is one of the high-enrollment middle schools in Greenfield, Wisconsin, overseen by Greenfield School District, with 704 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 381 students each, so Greenfield Middle sits 85% bigger than that benchmark.
Greenfield School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,380 students; Greenfield Middle is among them.
Demographically, Greenfield Middle reports that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 33% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 7% multiracial, 5% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Milwaukee County's rate of about 64%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Greenfield Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.9%; this one delivers 44.6%.
In the area at large, census data for Milwaukee County shows median household income runs about $64,435, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Greenfield Middle is one of 284 public schools in Milwaukee County (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students).
Nearest neighbor: Reagan College Preparatory High, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Greenfield Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Greenfield Middle at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 45.8%.
Greenfield Middle operates from a residential location.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 8%: 767 students in 2018 compared to 704 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 59% to 47% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.
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