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If you had an hour of school board time for Marinette Middle, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
534
Middle
DISTRICT 479 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MARINETTE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550870000996
Marinette Middle
1011 Water St, Marinette, WI 54143 · (715) 735-1500 · Marinette County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL534 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 5% of Wisconsin public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
265 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 42%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 128 | 24% |
| Grade 6 | 125 | 23% |
| Grade 7 | 150 | 28% |
| Grade 8 | 131 | 25% |
Student demographics
29%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Marinette Middle→Marinette High
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Marinette School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
37.8%
WI avg 53.1% . -0.5pp since 2023
Math
35.4%
WI avg 54.8% . -1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.8% | 35.4% |
| 2023-24 | 38.3% | 37.0% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
37.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.2%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Marinette Middle
Marinette Middle's state test result (37.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marinette Middle this school | 534 | 49.6% | 37.4% |
| Prairie River Middle Merrill | 507 | 47.3% | 40.8% |
| James Williams Middle Rhinelander | 454 | 46.5% | 46.9% |
| Tomah Middle Tomah | 663 | 43.7% | 42.9% |
| Waupaca Middle Waupaca | 546 | 43.4% | 56.8% |
| Rice Lake Middle Rice Lake | 622 | 43.2% | 56.4% |
Matched among Wisconsin middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Marinette Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.4% | #289 of 323 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.4% | #290 of 327 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.8% | #285 of 327 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 534 | #112 of 389 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #111 of 265 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 29.4% | #167 of 265 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.6% | #77 of 323 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.8% | #68 of 176 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
534
-64 (-11%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 666
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 13.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 534 | 42 | 12.7:1 | 50% (265) |
| 2023-24 | 541 | 41.1 | 13.2:1 | 53% (286) |
| 2022-23 | 567 | 42.3 | 13.4:1 | 50% (286) |
| 2020-21 | 598 | 43 | 13.9:1 | 57% (343) |
| 2017-18 | 627 | 42.6 | 14.7:1 | 46% (291) |
| 2015-16 | 585 | 40 | 14.6:1 | 53% (310) |
| 2010-11 | 569 | 41 | 13.9:1 | 51% (293) |
| 2000-01 | 555 | 45 | 12.3:1 | 20% (112) |
| 1990-91 | 666 | 41 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Marinette Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (627 to 534); teachers down 2% (42.6 to 42).
About Marinette Middle
Marinette Middle is a public medium-sized middle-grades school in Marinette, Wisconsin. Enrolled students number 534 students, in grades 5 through 8. Enrollment is 40% higher than the average for middle schools in Wisconsin, which is about 381.
Marinette School District has a total of 4 schools and 1,914 students, Marinette Middle among them.
White students make up 84% of enrollment at Marinette Middle. Next come 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. That compares with about 94% White among all Marinette County residents. The school's diversity index is 29%, meaning two students picked at random have a 29% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Marinette Middle employs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 12.7:1. For comparison, middle schools in Wisconsin average 12.8:1. Marinette Middle's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 50%.
The allk12 Grade for Marinette Middle is D. Compared with Wisconsin public middle schools, the school scored higher than 5% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Marinette Middle, the prediction is 47.2% and the result is 37.4%.
Marinette County has about 42,046 residents, and the median household income is $63,809, about 20% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. In all, Marinette County has 22 public schools and roughly 5,654 students.
The nearest other public school, Marinette Primary, is about 0.4 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Marinette Middle is 2nd of 5 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The NCES locale for Marinette Middle is Town: Distant, which covers schools in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Over 4 years, Marinette Middle's enrollment declined 11%, to 534. The number of students per teacher fell from 13.9 to 12.7 over 4 years.
Community posts for Marinette Middle can cover school safety, transportation, and start times. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Marinette County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
42,046
Census ACS
Median income
$63,809
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
22
5,654 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Marinette School District
- Marinette HighHigh · 618 students
- Marinette PrimaryElementary · 390 students
- Marinette IntermediateElementary · 372 students
Other schools in Marinette
- Marinette HighHigh · 618 students
- Marinette PrimaryElementary · 390 students
- Marinette IntermediateElementary · 372 students
Nearby schools
- Marinette Primary0.4 mi · 390
- Marinette High1.0 mi · 618
- Menominee Elementary School1.1 mi · 531
- Central Elementary School1.6 mi · 265
- Marinette Intermediate1.6 mi · 372
- Menominee High School1.7 mi · 352
Frequently asked questions
About Marinette MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Marinette Middle?
Marinette Middle enrolls approximately 534 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does Marinette Middle serve?
Marinette Middle serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Marinette Middle?
Approximately 12.7:1 students per teacher at Marinette Middle.
What is the student diversity at Marinette Middle?
Student demographics at Marinette Middle are roughly 84% White, 7% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Marinette Middle in?
Marinette Middle is part of Marinette School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.