Thomas Jefferson Middle

Located at 1403 N Holden St, in Port Washington, Wisconsin, Thomas Jefferson Middle is a sizable junior high that caters to 677 students (grades 5 through 8), overseen by Port Washington-Saukville School District. Enrollment runs roughly 78% above the state mean of about 381.

Port Washington-Saukville School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,415 students; Thomas Jefferson Middle is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Thomas Jefferson Middle logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 27% of students at Thomas Jefferson Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Ozaukee County runs at roughly 16%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Thomas Jefferson Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.8%, the actual is 64.8%, a residual of +4.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Ozaukee County shows the typical household earns roughly $96,996 per year, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Ozaukee County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,422 students), Thomas Jefferson Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Lincoln Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Thomas Jefferson Middle comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Thomas Jefferson Middle has ticked down 8%, going from 735 students in 2018 to 677 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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