Woodworth Middle

Woodworth Middle is one of the reasonably sized 6-8 campuss in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, run under Fond du Lac School District, with 413 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Fond du Lac School District comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 6,457 students; Woodworth Middle is among them.

On the student-mix side, Woodworth Middle shows that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 19% Hispanic, 10% Black, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Woodworth Middle records 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Fond du Lac County (around 41%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Woodworth Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.5%, the actual is 49.5%, a residual of +5.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Fond du Lac County) logs that median household earnings sit near $74,275, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Woodworth Middle is one of 42 public schools in Fond du Lac County (combined enrollment of about 13,230 students).

Roberts Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Woodworth Middle comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 54.0%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Woodworth Middle has shrank 19%, going from 508 students in 2018 to 413 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 77% to 60% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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