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What's one thing Washington Middle gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
688
Middle
DISTRICT 758 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREEN BAY AREA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550582000641
Washington Middle
314 S Baird St, Green Bay, WI 54301 · (920) 448-2095 · Brown County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL688 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 0% of Wisconsin public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
55 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
515 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 42%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 247 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 215 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 226 | 33% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
15.6%
WI avg 53.1% . -0.7pp since 2023
Math
10.6%
WI avg 54.8% . -3.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 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 down about 3 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 15.6% | 10.6% |
| 2023-24 | 16.3% | 13.8% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of WI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
14.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.7%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 32% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Washington Middle
Washington Middle's state test result (14.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Middle this school | 688 | 74.9% | 14.4% |
| Bullen Middle Kenosha | 754 | 69.1% | 32.2% |
| West Milwaukee Intermediate West Milwaukee | 378 | 76.7% | 33.3% |
| Audubon Technology and Communication Middle Milwaukee | 345 | 83.8% | 10.8% |
| Wedgewood Park School Milwaukee | 541 | 77.6% | 27.0% |
| Fran Fruzen Intermediate Beloit | 490 | 72.7% | 23.4% |
Matched among Wisconsin middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Washington Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Brown County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.4% | #316 of 323 | #14 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.6% | #320 of 327 no change | #14 of 14 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 15.6% | #322 of 327 ▼ 1 | #14 of 14 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 688 | #60 of 389 | #7 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #99 of 265 | #3 of 14 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.9% | #40 of 265 | #4 of 14 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.9% | #14 of 323 | #1 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.2% | #90 of 176 | #4 of 8 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
688
-40 (-5%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 792
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 11.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 688 | 55.2 | 12.5:1 | 75% (515) |
| 2023-24 | 684 | 59.3 | 11.5:1 | 76% (523) |
| 2022-23 | 711 | 63.8 | 11.2:1 | 75% (531) |
| 2020-21 | 728 | 62 | 11.7:1 | 86% (625) |
| 2017-18 | 784 | 68 | 11.5:1 | 78% (608) |
| 2015-16 | 904 | 68 | 13.3:1 | 82% (740) |
| 2010-11 | 900 | 65 | 13.8:1 | 79% (709) |
| 2000-01 | 967 | 73 | 13.3:1 | 34% (327) |
| 1990-91 | 792 | 53 | 14.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Washington Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (784 to 688); teachers down 19% (68 to 55.2).
About Washington Middle
Washington Middle is a high-enrollment middle-grades school in Green Bay, Wisconsin, one of the schools in Green Bay Area Public School District. Federal data show 688 students enrolled in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. Across middle schools in Wisconsin, the average enrollment is about 381.
Green Bay Area Public School District operates 44 schools. Combined enrollment is 18,722 students.
The share of Hispanic students at Washington Middle is 57%, a majority. After that, the student body is 17% White, 11% Black, 8% multiracial, and 6% Asian. Census figures show Brown County is about 10% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 63, compared with 70 nationally.
Teacher count: 55.2 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 12.5:1. The average ratio among middle schools in Wisconsin is similar, at 12.8:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 75%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Brown County is 39%.
Among Wisconsin public middle schools, Washington Middle outscored 0%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
Washington Middle scores 17.3 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 14.4% actual versus 31.7% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of Wisconsin schools on BeatsExpectations.
The school is in Brown County, where median household income comes to about $79,649, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Brown County counts 86 public schools with about 42,385 students.
East High is about 0.3 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Washington Middle, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Washington Middle is 7th of 7 nearby schools with test data.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Mid-size.
From 728 students in 2020-21, enrollment decreased to 688 by 2024-25.
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Brown County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
270,892
Census ACS
Median income
$79,649
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
86
42,385 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Green Bay Area Public School District
- Preble HighHigh · 2,149 students
- Edison MiddleMiddle · 1,121 students
- East HighHigh · 1,119 students
- Southwest HighHigh · 1,025 students
- Red Smith K-8Elementary · 924 students
- West HighHigh · 777 students
Other schools in Green Bay
- Preble HighHigh · 2,149 students
- Bay Port HighHigh · 1,966 students
- Edison MiddleMiddle · 1,121 students
- East HighHigh · 1,119 students
- Southwest HighHigh · 1,025 students
- Ashwaubenon HighHigh · 1,024 students
Other Washington Middle schools
30 other US public schools in 17 states are named Washington Middle. Washington Middle is the 6th largest of the 31.
- Washington MiddleManitowoc, WI · 566 students
- Washington MiddleKenosha, WI · 545 students
- Washington MiddleOconto Falls, WI · 377 students
- Washington MiddleSalinas, CA · 1,082 students
- Washington MiddleLong Beach, CA · 849 students
Nearby schools
- East High0.3 mi · 1,119
- Sullivan Elementary0.4 mi · 662
- Dr Rosa Minoka-Hill School0.5 mi · 83
- Bay View0.5 mi · 15
- Nicolet Elementary Community School0.6 mi · 312
- Northeast Wisconsin School of Innovation0.8 mi · 228
Frequently asked questions
About Washington MiddleHow many students attend Washington Middle?
Washington Middle enrolls approximately 688 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Washington Middle serve?
Washington Middle serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Washington Middle?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Washington Middle is approximately 12.5:1 (55 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Washington Middle?
Washington Middle reports a student body of 17% White, 57% Hispanic, 11% Black, 6% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Washington Middle?
Washington Middle is overseen by Green Bay Area Public School District in Brown County.
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