Turtle Lake Middle

As an one-room-style middle school in Turtle Lake, Wisconsin, Turtle Lake Middle caters to 96 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Turtle Lake School District. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 75% smaller than typical.

Turtle Lake School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 445 students; Turtle Lake Middle is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Turtle Lake Middle logs that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 7% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 5% Native American. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 92%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 40% of students at Turtle Lake Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Turtle Lake Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.4%; this one delivers 56.8%.

Across the wider county, Barron County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,933 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Barron County runs 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,199 students), of which Turtle Lake Middle is one.

Turtle Lake High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Turtle Lake Middle at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 53.4%.

Turtle Lake Middle operates from a rural location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 8%: 89 students in 2018 compared to 96 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 89% to 81% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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