Silver Spring Intermediate

Silver Spring Intermediate operates as a roomy 6-8 campus in Sussex, Wisconsin, operated by Hamilton School District. Current enrollment sits at 758 students spanning grades 5 through 6. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 99% bigger than typical.

Within Hamilton School District, which oversees 8 schools and 5,131 students, Silver Spring Intermediate is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Silver Spring Intermediate reports that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment. Other groups include 15% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Waukesha County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Silver Spring Intermediate records 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Silver Spring Intermediate higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 12% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Silver Spring Intermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.4%, the actual is 77.7%, a residual of +7.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Waukesha County indicate the typical household earns roughly $106,076 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Silver Spring Intermediate is one of 113 public schools in Waukesha County (combined enrollment of about 60,032 students).

The closest other public school is Templeton Middle, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Silver Spring Intermediate. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Silver Spring Intermediate ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 77.4%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Silver Spring Intermediate typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.