Phoenix Middle

Phoenix Middle operates as a mid-tier middle school in Delavan, Wisconsin, operated by Delavan-Darien School District. Current enrollment sits at 474 students spanning grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 24% bigger than the state mean of about 381.

Within Delavan-Darien School District, which oversees 5 schools and 1,672 students, Phoenix Middle is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Phoenix Middle reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 42% White, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

On the resource side, The school employs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Phoenix Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Walworth County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Phoenix Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.2%, the actual is 36.8%, a residual of -2.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Walworth County) logs that median household earnings sit near $80,520, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Phoenix Middle is one of 46 public schools in Walworth County (combined enrollment of about 14,383 students).

The closest other public school is Delavan-Darien High, roughly 0.3 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Phoenix Middle at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 48.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Phoenix Middle has showed little movement, going from 466 students in 2018 to 474 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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