South Milwaukee Middle

South Milwaukee Middle is one of the high-enrollment intermediate schools in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, overseen by South Milwaukee School District, with 610 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 60% larger than the state mean of about 381.

South Milwaukee School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,686 students. South Milwaukee Middle is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, South Milwaukee Middle records that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 31% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 6% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, South Milwaukee Middle reports 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Milwaukee County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), South Milwaukee Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.0%, the actual is 35.9%, a residual of -9.0 points.

Around the school, Milwaukee County reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,435 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), South Milwaukee Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is South Milwaukee High, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around South Milwaukee Middle. On composite proficiency, South Milwaukee Middle comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.2%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 10%: 677 students in 2018 compared to 610 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 66% to 54%. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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