Peshtigo Middle

As an one-room-style middle school in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Peshtigo Middle enrolls 151 students from grades 7 through 8, overseen by Peshtigo School District. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 381 students each, so Peshtigo Middle sits 60% below that benchmark.

Peshtigo School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,061 students; Peshtigo Middle is among them.

On demographics, Peshtigo Middle records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Beyond that, the school reports 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Peshtigo Middle has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 32% of students at Peshtigo Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Marinette County's rate of about 44%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Peshtigo Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.1%, the actual is 45.9%, a residual of -12.3 points.

In the broader community, Marinette County reports that median household income runs about $63,809, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Marinette County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,654 students), of which Peshtigo Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Peshtigo High, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Peshtigo Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Peshtigo Middle at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 41.1%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Peshtigo Middle has contracted 21%, going from 191 students in 2018 to 151 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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