Logan Middle
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Logan Middle
Logan Middle is a mid-sized intermediate school in La Crosse, Wisconsin, part of La Crosse School District. The school caters to 424 students in grades 6 through 8.
Logan Middle is one of 19 schools operated by La Crosse School District, a district that educates 5,717 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Logan Middle lists that 58% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 14% multiracial, 13% Asian, 7% Black, 7% Hispanic. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.
In terms of school funding signals, Logan Middle shows 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.0:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, La Crosse County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Logan Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.9%, the actual is 47.1%, a residual of +2.2 points.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (La Crosse County) records that the typical household earns roughly $73,013 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across La Crosse County's 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,903 students), Logan Middle is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: School of Technology and Arts II, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Logan Middle. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Logan Middle ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 45.3%.
The school occupies a downtown site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Logan Middle has held roughly steady, going from 420 students in 2018 to 424 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 64% to 58% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 in 2025.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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