Hudson Middle

Located at 1300 Carmichael Rd, in Hudson, Wisconsin, Hudson Middle is a sizable middle-grades school that hosts 1,089 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Hudson School District. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 381 students each, so Hudson Middle sits 186% bigger than that benchmark.

Hudson School District runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 5,119 students. Hudson Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Hudson Middle shows that nearly all students (87%) are White. The remainder looks like 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 12% of students at Hudson Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, St. Croix County runs at roughly 22%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hudson Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.3%; this one delivers 64.8%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for St. Croix County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,046 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across St. Croix County's 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,266 students), Hudson Middle is one campus in the mix.

Hudson Prairie Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hudson Middle comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 66.7%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hudson Middle has fell 17%, going from 1,317 students in 2018 to 1,089 in 2025.

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