Karcher Middle School

Karcher Middle School is a junior high of roomy scale in Burlington, Wisconsin, run under Burlington Area School District, enrolling 779 students in grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 104% above the state mean of about 381.

Burlington Area School District comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,035 students; Karcher Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Karcher Middle School shows that White students make up the majority at 76%; the rest looks like 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Racine County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Karcher Middle School records 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 35% of students at Karcher Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Racine County's rate of about 48%.

After controlling for student poverty, Karcher Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.4%, the actual is 66.4%, a residual of +10.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Racine County shows median household earnings sit near $78,096, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Racine County's 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,901 students), Karcher Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Wisconsin Connect Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Karcher Middle School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Karcher Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 62.3%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Karcher Middle School's enrollment has increased 75% since 2018, when it stood at 446 (now 779). The White share of enrollment edged down from 84% to 76% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Karcher Middle School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.