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Enrollment
766
Middle
DISTRICT 762 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HAMILTON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550603000669
Templeton Middle
N59W22490 Silver Spring Dr, Sussex, WI 53089 · (262) 246-6477 · Waukesha County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL766 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 95% of Wisconsin public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public middle schools
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
13%
103 students
DISTRICT 12% · STATE 42%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 413 | 54% |
| Grade 8 | 353 | 46% |
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Templeton Middle→Hamilton High
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Hamilton School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
77.5%
WI avg 53.1% . -2.3pp since 2023
Math
79.4%
WI avg 54.8% . -0.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.5% | 79.4% |
| 2023-24 | 79.8% | 80.3% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
79.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.4%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Templeton Middle
Templeton Middle's state test result (79.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Templeton Middle this school | 766 | 13.4% | 79.5% |
| Glacier Creek Middle Cross Plains | 924 | 14.3% | 75.5% |
| Silver Spring Intermediate Sussex | 758 | 11.9% | 77.7% |
| Pilgrim Park Middle Elm Grove | 898 | 8.4% | 77.9% |
| Asa Clark Middle Pewaukee | 623 | 10.9% | 74.1% |
| Forest Park Middle Franklin | 1,056 | 20.9% | 67.0% |
Matched among Wisconsin middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Templeton Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Waukesha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.5% | #9 of 323 | #3 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.4% | #26 of 327 ▼ 7 | #8 of 17 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.5% | #17 of 327 ▼ 7 | #6 of 17 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 766 | #38 of 389 | #5 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #239 of 265 | #15 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.8% | #110 of 265 | #8 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 13.4% | #303 of 323 | #8 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.2% | #16 of 176 | #1 of 13 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
766
-25 (-3%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 798
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
was 16.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 766 | 49.4 | 15.5:1 | 13% (103) |
| 2023-24 | 744 | 47.2 | 15.8:1 | 14% (101) |
| 2022-23 | 750 | 47.1 | 15.9:1 | 15% (111) |
| 2020-21 | 791 | 49 | 16.1:1 | 17% (131) |
| 2017-18 | 1,067 | 60.9 | 17.5:1 | 12% (133) |
| 2015-16 | 1,002 | 62 | 16.2:1 | 15% (154) |
| 2010-11 | 980 | 64 | 15.3:1 | 14% (133) |
| 2000-01 | 837 | 62 | 13.5:1 | 6% (49) |
| 1990-91 | 798 | 52 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Templeton Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (1,067 to 766); teachers down 19% (60.9 to 49.4).
About Templeton Middle
Templeton Middle is one of the public schools in Sussex, Wisconsin. It is a high-enrollment middle-grades school. School enrollment was 766 students in 2024-25, in grades 7 through 8. For comparison, middle schools in Wisconsin average about 381 students.
Hamilton School District runs 8 schools with a combined 5,131 students. Templeton Middle is one of them.
At 75%, White students outnumber all other groups at Templeton Middle combined. The school is also 12% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 3% Black, and 3% multiracial. The White share of the county population is higher, at 87%. Templeton Middle has a diversity index of 42%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
At Templeton Middle, 49.4 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 15.5:1. That ratio is over the 12.8:1 average for middle schools in Wisconsin. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 13% of enrollment.
allk12 grades Templeton Middle an A+. The grade compares the school only with Wisconsin public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Templeton Middle falls in the middle 80% of Wisconsin schools: 79.5% actual against 69.4% predicted.
Among Waukesha County residents, median household income is about $106,076, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 3% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 113 public schools in Waukesha County, with a combined enrollment of about 60,032.
Silver Spring Intermediate is the closest public school, about 0.3 miles away in a straight line. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Templeton Middle ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Templeton Middle is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Templeton Middle had 791 students in 2020-21 and 766 in 2024-25, a 3% decrease.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Waukesha County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
411,762
Census ACS
Median income
$106,076
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
113
60,032 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hamilton School District
- Hamilton HighHigh · 1,577 students
- Silver Spring IntermediateMiddle · 758 students
- Marcy ElementaryElementary · 488 students
- Maple Avenue ElementaryElementary · 457 students
- Woodside ElementaryElementary · 456 students
- Lannon ElementaryElementary · 350 students
Other schools in Sussex
- Hamilton HighHigh · 1,577 students
- Silver Spring IntermediateMiddle · 758 students
- Maple Avenue ElementaryElementary · 457 students
- Woodside ElementaryElementary · 456 students
- Richmond ElementaryElementary · 410 students
Other Templeton Middle schools
One other US public school is named Templeton Middle. Templeton Middle is the largest of the 2.
- Templeton MiddleTempleton, CA · 478 students
Nearby schools
- Silver Spring Intermediate0.3 mi · 758
- Hamilton High0.3 mi · 1,577
- Willow Springs Learning Center0.9 mi · 279
- Maple Avenue Elementary1.7 mi · 457
- Lannon Elementary2.0 mi · 350
- Woodside Elementary2.2 mi · 456
Frequently asked questions
About Templeton MiddleHow many students attend Templeton Middle?
Templeton Middle enrolls approximately 766 students in grades 07-08.
What grades does Templeton Middle serve?
Templeton Middle serves grades 07-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Templeton Middle?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Templeton Middle is approximately 15.5:1 (49 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Templeton Middle?
Templeton Middle reports a student body of 75% White, 6% Hispanic, 3% Black, 12% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Templeton Middle public or private?
Templeton Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Hamilton School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.