Phillips Middle

Phillips Middle is a 6-8 campus of tiny scale in Phillips, Wisconsin, overseen by Phillips School District, hosting 144 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 62% leaner than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 381 students.

Phillips Middle is one of 3 schools operated by Phillips School District, a district that hosts 650 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Phillips Middle records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Other groups include 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Phillips Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. About 2% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Price County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Phillips Middle falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 76.4%; this one comes in at 46.6%, -29.8 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Price County) reports that median household income runs about $60,546, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Price County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,464 students), Phillips Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Phillips High, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Phillips Middle ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 49.6%.

Phillips Middle operates from a rural location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Phillips Middle's enrollment has declined 12% since 2018, when it stood at 163 (now 144). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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