Little Chute Middle
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 54% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Wisconsin's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Little Chute Middle
Located at 1402 Freedom Rd, in Little Chute, Wisconsin, Little Chute Middle is a tight-knit junior high that teaches 214 students (grades 7 through 8), one of the schools within Little Chute Area School District. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 44% leaner than typical.
Little Chute Area School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 1,586 students; Little Chute Middle is among them.
On the student-mix side, Little Chute Middle records that 77% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Native American, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Little Chute Middle records 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 38% of students at Little Chute Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
With demographic context factored in, Little Chute Middle ranks in the top 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 54.4%; Little Chute Middle posts 70.8%, +16.4 points above that line.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Outagamie County indicate median household income runs about $85,069, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Outagamie County runs 73 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,330 students), of which Little Chute Middle is one.
Little Chute Career Pathways Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 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 Little Chute Middle at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 64.4%.
Little Chute Middle operates from a commuter-belt location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 4%: 222 students in 2018 compared to 214 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 86% to 77%.
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Related schools
- Little Chute ElementaryElementary · 590 students
- Little Chute HighHigh · 387 students
- Little Chute IntermediateMiddle · 215 students
- Little Chute Career Pathways AcademyHigh · 93 students
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- Little Chute ElementaryElementary · 590 students
- Little Chute HighHigh · 387 students
- Little Chute IntermediateMiddle · 215 students
- Little Chute Career Pathways AcademyHigh · 93 students
- Flex AcademyElementary · 87 students
- Little Chute Career Pathways Academy0.0 mi · 93
- Little Chute High0.0 mi · 387
- Little Chute Intermediate0.0 mi · 215
- Flex Academy0.1 mi · 87
- Little Chute Elementary0.4 mi · 590
- 4K Center for Literacy1.3 mi · 271