Richfield Middle
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
About Richfield Middle
Richfield Middle is an intimate middle-grades school in Richfield, Wisconsin, run under Holy Hill Area School District. The school works with 206 students in grades 5 through 8. That puts it 46% smaller than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 381 students.
Holy Hill Area School District runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 485 students. Richfield Middle is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, Richfield Middle reports that nearly all students (93%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 2% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the resource side, The school reports having 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 16% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Richfield Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.8%, the actual is 73.4%, a residual of +5.6 points.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate median household earnings sit near $96,359, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Richfield Middle is one of 34 public schools in Washington County (combined enrollment of about 17,746 students).
Nearest neighbor: Rockfield Elementary, around 2.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Richfield Middle. On composite proficiency, Richfield Middle comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 68.6%.
Richfield Middle operates from an outlying location.
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