Sabish Middle

Sabish Middle, a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, operated by Fond du Lac School District, serves 445 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Fond du Lac School District runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 6,457 students. Sabish Middle is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Sabish Middle lists that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 29% Hispanic, 12% Black, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian. By comparison, Fond du Lac County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Sabish Middle shows 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 57% 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, Fond du Lac County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sabish Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.5%, the actual is 53.7%, a residual of +11.2 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Fond du Lac County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,275, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Sabish Middle is one of 42 public schools in Fond du Lac County (combined enrollment of about 13,230 students).

Nearest neighbor: Early Learning in Fond du Lac, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sabish Middle. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sabish Middle ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 46.5%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 442 students in 2018 compared to 445 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 67% to 47% across the same window.

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