Waupun Area Junior High

Waupun Area Junior High is an intimate middle school in Waupun, Wisconsin, operated by Waupun School District. The school educates 297 students in grades 7 through 8. That puts it 22% below the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 381 students.

Waupun School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,166 students; Waupun Area Junior High is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Waupun Area Junior High reports that nearly all students (85%) are White. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Dodge County as a whole.

On the resource side, Waupun Area Junior High lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Waupun Area Junior High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Waupun Area Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.7%, the actual is 46.6%, a residual of -7.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Dodge County indicate median household earnings sit near $75,929, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dodge County runs 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,450 students), of which Waupun Area Junior High is one.

The closest other public school is Waupun Area Junior/Senior High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Waupun Area Junior High comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 62.3%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 6-year window, the student count ticked up 13%: 264 students in 2018 compared to 297 in 2024. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 6% to 11%.

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