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Enrollment
704
Middle
DISTRICT 563 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREENFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550594000654
Greenfield Middle
3200 W Barnard Ave, Greenfield, WI 53221 · (414) 282-4700 · Milwaukee County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL704 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 22% of Wisconsin public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
10.9:1
64 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
53%
376 students
DISTRICT 54% · 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 | 221 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 251 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 232 | 33% |
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
Greenfield Middle→Greenfield High
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Greenfield School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
48.8%
WI avg 53.1% . +7.4pp since 2023
Math
38.8%
WI avg 54.8% . +0.4pp since 2023
What 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.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.8% | 38.8% |
| 2023-24 | 41.4% | 38.4% |
% 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
44.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.9%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.3pp
below demographic expectation
What 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%.
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 Greenfield Middle
Greenfield Middle's state test result (44.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenfield Middle this school | 704 | 53.4% | 44.6% |
| Maplewood Middle Menasha | 676 | 55.9% | 44.0% |
| Horning Middle Waukesha | 534 | 54.9% | 40.8% |
| Lombardi Middle Green Bay | 664 | 55.6% | 47.1% |
| Sabish Middle Fond du Lac | 445 | 57.3% | 53.7% |
| Kaleidoscope Academy Appleton | 456 | 50.7% | 49.9% |
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 Greenfield Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Milwaukee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.6% | #264 of 323 | #13 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.8% | #280 of 327 ▼ 1 | #14 of 27 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.8% | #224 of 327 ▲ 44 | #12 of 27 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 704 | #55 of 389 | #5 of 28 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #30 of 265 | #4 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.6% | #31 of 265 | #7 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.4% | #59 of 323 | #13 of 26 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.2% | #122 of 176 | #12 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
704
-41 (-6%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 768
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 13.6:1
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 | 704 | 64.4 | 10.9:1 | 53% (376) |
| 2023-24 | 723 | 63.9 | 11.3:1 | 55% (401) |
| 2022-23 | 750 | 56.6 | 13.3:1 | 52% (391) |
| 2020-21 | 745 | 55 | 13.6:1 | 38% (285) |
| 2017-18 | 767 | 53.6 | 14.3:1 | 42% (323) |
| 2015-16 | 766 | 44 | 17.4:1 | 40% (310) |
| 2010-11 | 797 | 49 | 16.3:1 | 38% (304) |
| 2000-01 | 740 | 52 | 14.2:1 | 22% (162) |
| 1990-91 | 768 | 54 | 14.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Greenfield Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (767 to 704); teachers up 20% (53.6 to 64.4).
About Greenfield Middle
Greenfield Middle is a large middle school for students in Greenfield, Wisconsin. It serves 704 students in grades 6 through 8. The average among middle schools in Wisconsin is roughly 381 students; this school is 85% larger than that.
Greenfield School District has 3,380 students spread across 6 schools.
Federal enrollment data show White students as the largest group at Greenfield Middle, at 47%. Enrollment also includes 33% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 7% multiracial, and 5% Black. The county population is about 51% White, within a few points of the school. Greenfield Middle's diversity index is 66%, against a US figure of 70%.
Dividing enrollment by its 64.4 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 10.9:1. That is 1.8 students per teacher below the 12.8:1 average for middle schools in Wisconsin. Greenfield Middle reports 53% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That rate is below the 64% average among public schools in Milwaukee County.
The allk12 Grade for Greenfield Middle is C-. Compared with Wisconsin public middle schools, the school scored higher than 22% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Greenfield Middle is -0.3 points: 44.6% actual, 44.9% predicted.
In the county around the school, Milwaukee County, the median household income is $64,435, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 284 public schools in Milwaukee County, enrolling about 122,496 students in all.
Reagan College Preparatory High is the public school closest to Greenfield Middle, about 0.8 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: Greenfield Middle ranks 6th of 9 nearby schools, at 44.6% versus a 45.8% average.
Federal data place Greenfield Middle in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is down 6% from 2020-21, when Greenfield Middle had 745 students, to 2024-25, when it had 704. The ratio of students to teachers went from 13.6:1 to 10.9:1 over the same years.
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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 Greenfield School District
- Greenfield HighHigh · 1,140 students
- Elm Dale ElementaryElementary · 477 students
- Maple Grove ElementaryElementary · 427 students
- Edgewood ElementaryElementary · 325 students
- Glenwood ElementaryElementary · 307 students
Other schools in Greenfield
- Greenfield HighHigh · 1,140 students
- Whitnall HighHigh · 821 students
- Whitnall MiddleMiddle · 558 students
- Elm Dale ElementaryElementary · 477 students
- Maple Grove ElementaryElementary · 427 students
- Edgewood ElementaryElementary · 325 students
Other Greenfield Middle schools
4 other US public schools in 4 states are named Greenfield Middle. Greenfield Middle is the 3rd largest of the 5.
- Greenfield MiddleBakersfield, CA · 873 students
- Greenfield MiddleEl Cajon, CA · 730 students
- Greenfield Middle SchoolGreenfield, OH · 407 students
- Greenfield MiddleGreenfield, MA · 325 students
Nearby schools
- Reagan College Preparatory High0.8 mi · 1,372
- Elm Dale Elementary0.8 mi · 477
- Cooper Elementary0.8 mi · 447
- Lowell International Elementary1.0 mi · 209
- Edgewood Elementary1.0 mi · 325
- Garland Elementary1.2 mi · 541
Frequently asked questions
About Greenfield MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Greenfield Middle?
Greenfield Middle enrolls approximately 704 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Greenfield Middle serve?
Greenfield Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Greenfield Middle?
Approximately 10.9:1 students per teacher at Greenfield Middle.
How diverse is Greenfield Middle?
Greenfield Middle reports a student body of 47% White, 33% Hispanic, 5% Black, 8% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Greenfield Middle public or private?
Greenfield Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Greenfield School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.