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Sheboygan Falls Middle
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Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Sheboygan Falls Middle
Sheboygan Falls Middle is a reasonably sized middle school in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, run under Sheboygan Falls School District. The school hosts 415 students in grades 5 through 8.
Sheboygan Falls School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,494 students; Sheboygan Falls Middle is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Sheboygan Falls Middle shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). The remainder is composed of 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. Compared to Sheboygan County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Sheboygan Falls Middle has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 29% of students at Sheboygan Falls Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Sheboygan County (around 45%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sheboygan Falls Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.8%; this one delivers 56.4%.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Sheboygan County) shows that median household income runs about $73,094, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Sheboygan County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,340 students), of which Sheboygan Falls Middle is one.
The closest other public school is Sheboygan Falls Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sheboygan Falls Middle comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sheboygan Falls Middle has shrank 19%, going from 513 students in 2018 to 415 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 86% to 82%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.
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Sheboygan County at a glance
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