Stratford Middle

Stratford Middle is one of the intimate middle-grades schools in Stratford, Wisconsin, overseen by Stratford School District, with 163 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 57% below the state mean of about 381.

Stratford School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 768 students. Stratford Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Stratford Middle lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%); the rest reads as 7% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Marathon County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school reports having 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Stratford Middle higher than the state norm the norm. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Marathon County (around 37%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Stratford Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 62.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 69.6%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Marathon County indicate median household income runs about $77,884, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Marathon County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,592 students), of which Stratford Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Stratford High, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Stratford Middle. On composite proficiency, Stratford Middle comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 61.5%.

Stratford Middle operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Stratford Middle has ticked down 17%, going from 197 students in 2018 to 163 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 95% to 91% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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