Olson Middle

Olson Middle is one of the low-enrollment middle schools in Mauston, Wisconsin, operated by Mauston School District, with 240 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 37% smaller than the state mean of about 381.

Mauston School District comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 1,378 students; Olson Middle is among them.

On the student-mix side, Olson Middle records that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Olson Middle higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 55% of students at Olson Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Juneau County (around 41%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Olson Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.6%; this one delivers 45.2%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Juneau County indicate median household earnings sit near $67,270, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Juneau County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,471 students), of which Olson Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: West Side Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Olson Middle. On composite proficiency, Olson Middle comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.1%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Olson Middle's enrollment has decreased 21% since 2018, when it stood at 305 (now 240).

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