Mineral Point 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 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 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 down about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 Mineral Point Middle
Mineral Point Middle is an intimate intermediate school in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Mineral Point Unified School District. The school educates 170 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 55% smaller than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 381 students.
Mineral Point Unified School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 800 students. Mineral Point Middle is one of those campuses.
Demographically, Mineral Point Middle records that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 5% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. Compared to Iowa County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Mineral Point Middle has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
After controlling for student poverty, Mineral Point Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.9%.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Iowa County indicate the typical household earns roughly $82,182 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mineral Point Middle is one of 15 public schools in Iowa County (combined enrollment of about 3,373 students).
Mineral Point High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mineral Point Middle at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 57.5%.
The campus sits in an outlying setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 3%: 165 students in 2018 compared to 170 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.
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Related schools
- Mineral Point ElementaryElementary · 377 students
- Mineral Point HighHigh · 253 students
- Mineral Point ElementaryElementary · 377 students
- Mineral Point HighHigh · 253 students
- Mineral Point High0.0 mi · 253
- Mineral Point Elementary0.8 mi · 377
- Dodgeville High7.4 mi · 367
- Dodgeville Middle7.5 mi · 283
- Dodgeville Elementary7.5 mi · 385
- Belmont High10.7 mi · 168