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Tomah Middle
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Tomah Middle
Tomah Middle operates as a big junior high in Tomah, Wisconsin, operated by Tomah Area School District. Current enrollment sits at 663 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 381 students each, so Tomah Middle sits 74% bigger than that benchmark.
Across the 12 schools in Tomah Area School District (2,970 students total), Tomah Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, Tomah Middle lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Native American, 2% Black. By comparison, Monroe County as a whole is about 90% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Tomah Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.8%, the actual is 42.9%, a residual of -8.0 points.
Across the wider county, Monroe County reports that median household earnings sit near $69,467, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Monroe County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,845 students), Tomah Middle is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Miller Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Tomah Middle comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.
Over the past 7-year window. Tomah Middle's enrollment has rose 3% since 2018, when it stood at 643 (now 663).
On allk12, the feed for Tomah Middle typically covers enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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