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Enrollment
394
Middle
DISTRICT 316 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WHITEWATER UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 551668002178
Whitewater Middle
401 S Elizabeth St, Whitewater, WI 53190 · (262) 472-8300 · Walworth County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL394 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 27% of Wisconsin public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
11.4:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
198 students
DISTRICT 44% · 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 | 131 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 134 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 129 | 33% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Whitewater Middle→Whitewater High
Based on grade levels within Whitewater Unified School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
46.2%
WI avg 53.1% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
45.1%
WI avg 54.8% . +1.3pp since 2023
What 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 45 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.2% | 45.1% |
| 2023-24 | 38.2% | 43.8% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
47.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.8%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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%.
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 Whitewater Middle
Whitewater Middle's state test result (47.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitewater Middle this school | 394 | 50.3% | 47.2% |
| South Milwaukee Middle South Milwaukee | 610 | 53.3% | 35.9% |
| Deer Creek Intermediate Saint Francis | 300 | 46.7% | 54.4% |
| Horning Middle Waukesha | 534 | 54.9% | 40.8% |
| Bessie Allen Middle North Fond du Lac | 339 | 48.7% | 39.9% |
| Cherokee Heights Middle Madison | 526 | 48.3% | 38.6% |
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 Whitewater Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Walworth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.2% | #248 of 323 | #5 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.1% | #263 of 327 ▼ 4 | #4 of 6 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.2% | #247 of 327 ▲ 35 | #5 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 394 | #167 of 389 | #4 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #50 of 265 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.1% | #53 of 265 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.3% | #72 of 323 | #2 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.3% | #104 of 176 | N/A |
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
394
-13 (-3%) vs 2020
+42% since 1990-91, when it was 277
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 394 | 34.5 | 11.4:1 | 50% (198) |
| 2023-24 | 431 | 34 | 12.7:1 | 51% (218) |
| 2022-23 | 444 | 34.5 | 12.9:1 | 49% (218) |
| 2020-21 | 407 | 33 | 12.3:1 | 51% (207) |
| 2017-18 | 439 | 33.5 | 13.1:1 | 43% (188) |
| 2015-16 | 415 | 31 | 13.4:1 | 42% (173) |
| 2010-11 | 428 | 32 | 13.4:1 | 34% (144) |
| 2000-01 | 495 | 34 | 14.6:1 | 22% (111) |
| 1990-91 | 277 | 19 | 14.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Whitewater Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (439 to 394); teachers up 3% (33.5 to 34.5).
About Whitewater Middle
Whitewater Middle is a mid-sized middle-grades school in Whitewater, Wisconsin. The school counted 394 students in 2024-25, covering grades 6 through 8.
Whitewater Middle is part of a district of 6 schools: Whitewater Unified School District, with 1,893 students.
At Whitewater Middle, 51% of students are White. Smaller groups are 40% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% Black. For comparison, the population of Walworth County is roughly 85% White. The diversity index for Whitewater Middle is 57%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Whitewater Middle has a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.4:1, with 34.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in Wisconsin, 12.8:1, is higher. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 50% at Whitewater Middle. Across public schools in Walworth County, the average is 37%.
Among Wisconsin public middle schools, Whitewater Middle outscored 27%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, Whitewater Middle is within a point of its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Wisconsin schools.
The school is in Walworth County, where the median household earns about $80,520 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 32% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Whitewater Middle shares Walworth County with 45 other public schools.
Measured in a straight line, Whitewater 4K is about 0.1 miles from Whitewater Middle. The five-mile area around Whitewater Middle holds 5 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 51.6%, higher than Whitewater Middle's 47.2%.
For locale, NCES codes Whitewater Middle as Town: Distant.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 3%, from 407 to 394.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Whitewater Middle. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Walworth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
105,657
Census ACS
Median income
$80,520
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
46
14,383 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Whitewater Unified School District
- Whitewater HighHigh · 606 students
- Lincoln ElementaryElementary · 358 students
- Washington ElementaryElementary · 312 students
- Lakeview ElementaryElementary · 209 students
- Whitewater 4KElementary · 14 students
Other schools in Whitewater
- Whitewater HighHigh · 606 students
- Lincoln ElementaryElementary · 358 students
- Washington ElementaryElementary · 312 students
- Lakeview ElementaryElementary · 209 students
- JEDI Virtual K-12Combined · 188 students
- Whitewater 4KElementary · 14 students
Other Whitewater Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Whitewater Middle. Whitewater Middle is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- Whitewater Middle SchoolFayetteville, GA · 874 students
- Whitewater MiddleCharlotte, NC · 731 students
Nearby schools
- Whitewater 4K0.1 mi · 14
- Lincoln Elementary0.2 mi · 358
- Whitewater High0.3 mi · 606
- Washington Elementary1.5 mi · 312
- JEDI Virtual K-122.5 mi · 188
- Lakeview Elementary5.4 mi · 209
Frequently asked questions
About Whitewater MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Whitewater Middle?
Whitewater Middle enrolls approximately 394 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Whitewater Middle serve?
Whitewater Middle serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Whitewater Middle?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Whitewater Middle is approximately 11.4:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Whitewater Middle?
At Whitewater Middle, the student body is approximately 51% White, 40% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Whitewater Middle public or private?
Whitewater Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Whitewater Unified School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.