Kettle Moraine Middle

Set in Dousman, Wisconsin, Kettle Moraine Middle is a big middle-grades school, run under Kettle Moraine School District. It educates 726 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 91% above the state mean of about 381.

Kettle Moraine School District runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 3,361 students. Kettle Moraine Middle is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Kettle Moraine Middle logs that nearly all students (88%) are White; the rest is composed of 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Kettle Moraine Middle has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Kettle Moraine Middle higher than the state norm the norm. Around 11% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Kettle Moraine Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.8%; this one delivers 78.9%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Waukesha County) reports that median household earnings sit near $106,076, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Waukesha County runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,032 students), of which Kettle Moraine Middle is one.

Dousman Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kettle Moraine Middle. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kettle Moraine Middle ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 66.5%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 12%: 823 students in 2018 compared to 726 in 2025.

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