Marshfield Middle

As a moderately sized 6-8 campus in Marshfield, Wisconsin, Marshfield Middle hosts 537 students from grades 7 through 8, one of the schools within Marshfield Unified School District. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 381 students each, so Marshfield Middle sits 41% larger than that benchmark.

Within Marshfield Unified School District, which oversees 8 schools and 3,553 students, Marshfield Middle is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Marshfield Middle records that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Marshfield Middle has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Marshfield Middle higher than the state norm the norm. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Wood County's rate of about 43%.

After controlling for student poverty, Marshfield Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.6%.

In the area at large, census data for Wood County shows the typical household earns roughly $67,989 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Wood County runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,849 students), of which Marshfield Middle is one.

Marshfield K4 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Marshfield Middle. On composite proficiency, Marshfield Middle comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 64.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 3%: 556 students in 2018 compared to 537 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 90% to 85% across the same window.

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