Viroqua Middle

Viroqua Middle is one of the cozy intermediate schools in Viroqua, Wisconsin, run under Viroqua Area School District, with 253 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 34% below the state mean of about 381.

Viroqua Middle is one of 6 schools operated by Viroqua Area School District, a district that enrolls 1,038 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Viroqua Middle records that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Vernon County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Viroqua Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.3%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Vernon County put median household earnings sit near $71,893, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Viroqua Middle is one of 23 public schools in Vernon County (combined enrollment of about 3,669 students).

Viroqua High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Viroqua Middle. On composite proficiency, Viroqua Middle comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 58.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Viroqua Middle has shrank 17%, going from 304 students in 2018 to 253 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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