Three Lakes Junior High
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 52% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Wisconsin's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Three Lakes Junior High
Located at 6930 W School St, in Three Lakes, Wisconsin, Three Lakes Junior High is an one-room-style intermediate school that hosts 73 students (grades 7 through 8), run under Three Lakes School District. That puts it 81% leaner than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 381 students.
Three Lakes School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 500 students. Three Lakes Junior High is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Three Lakes Junior High reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). The remainder comes out to 5% multiracial. Compared to Oneida County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 42% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Three Lakes Junior High sits in the top 10% of Wisconsin schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 51.6%; actual is 66.9%, +15.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Oneida County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $69,371 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Oneida County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,949 students), Three Lakes Junior High is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Three Lakes High, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Three Lakes Junior High. On composite proficiency, Three Lakes Junior High comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.8%.
The school occupies a low-density site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Three Lakes Junior High has fell 9%, going from 80 students in 2018 to 73 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 98% to 93% over that span.
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