Lance Middle

Located at 4515 80th St, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Lance Middle is an expansive 6-8 campus that serves 899 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Kenosha School District. That puts it 136% above the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 381 students.

Within Kenosha School District, which oversees 41 schools and 20,297 students, Lance Middle is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Lance Middle lists that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 28% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Kenosha County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Lance Middle reports 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Lance Middle higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 46% of students at Lance Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lance Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.5%; this one delivers 49.0%.

Around the school, Kenosha County reports that median household income runs about $81,239, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Kenosha County runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,114 students), of which Lance Middle is one.

Kenosha High School of Technology Enhanced Curriculum is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lance Middle at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 46.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 887 students in 2018 compared to 899 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 63% to 54%.

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