Summary:
New Berlin CUSD 16 has one middle school, New Berlin Junior High School, serving grades 6–8 in the New Berlin area and enrolling 155 students. In 2025–2026, the school was above statewide proficiency rates in all-grades ELA (69% versus 56%), math (45% versus 40%), and eighth-grade science (53% versus 52%). Its clearest advantage was in ELA, where it led the state by 13 percentage points.
Because it is the only school listed, New Berlin Junior High is both the top and bottom school in this group; there is no local school-to-school comparison. Within the school, seventh-grade math stands out relative to the state: 53% of students were proficient compared with 40% statewide, a 13-point advantage. Eighth-grade science was the narrowest advantage, at 53% versus 52% statewide, or 1 point. Results also vary more by grade in math, where proficiency spans 16 points from grade 7 to grade 8, than in ELA, which spans 3 points. With only one school in the list, these figures cannot show how schools across the wider area compare.
ELA and math scores improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose from 65% to 69%, and math from 41% to 45%; the school’s leads over the state widened by 1 point in ELA and 2 points in math. Science was the exception: eighth-grade proficiency fell from 69% to 53%, while the state rate rose from 45% to 52%, narrowing the school’s advantage by 23 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking also fell from the 79th to the 65th percentile, a 14-point drop, even as ELA and math scores increased. Other context includes a 12.2 student–teacher ratio and 29% of students free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; chronic absenteeism was 13% in 2025–2026, below the statewide 24% by 11 points.
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