Potosi Middle

Potosi Middle is one of the micro-enrollment intermediate schools in Potosi, Wisconsin, overseen by Potosi School District, with 66 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 381 students each, so Potosi Middle sits 83% smaller than that benchmark.

Potosi School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 339 students. Potosi Middle is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Potosi Middle shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Beyond that, the school shows 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Potosi Middle has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.4:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 27% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Grant County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Potosi Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.9%, the actual is 51.8%, a residual of -9.1 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Grant County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $66,858 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Grant County's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,838 students), Potosi Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Potosi Elementary, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Potosi Middle comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 64.1%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Potosi Middle has fell 3%, going from 68 students in 2018 to 66 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, members of the Potosi Middle community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.