Owen-Withee Junior High

Owen-Withee Junior High is one of the rural-scale 6-8 campuss in Owen, Wisconsin, overseen by Owen-Withee School District, with 112 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 381 students each, so Owen-Withee Junior High sits 71% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Owen-Withee School District, which oversees 3 schools and 472 students, Owen-Withee Junior High is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Owen-Withee Junior High shows that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 17% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Clark County as a whole is about 91% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Owen-Withee Junior High has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 59% of students at Owen-Withee Junior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Owen-Withee Junior High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.5%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Clark County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $67,400 per year, about 13% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Clark County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,522 students), of which Owen-Withee Junior High is one.

Owen-Withee Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Owen-Withee Junior High ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 44.7%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Owen-Withee Junior High's enrollment has increased 62% since 2018, when it stood at 69 (now 112). Over the same period, the White share fell from 93% to 79%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 today.

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