Summary:
The middle-school list for Winnebago CUSD 323 contains one school, Winnebago Middle School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 296 students. Its strongest standout is all-grade ELA: 67% proficient in 2025–2026, about 10 percentage points above both the state and district.
With just one school, there is no school-to-school leader or trailer; comparisons are to the state and district. Winnebago Middle School also performed above the state in grade 8 science, with 61% proficient versus 52% statewide, a 9-point advantage. All-grade math was close to the state result—40.0% at the school versus 39.6% statewide and 39.4% in the district. Grade 8 math is the clearest relative weakness: 32% proficient, 3 points below the state’s 35%. In the other grades, school results were above state levels in both ELA and math.
Results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, especially in ELA: proficiency rose from 49% to 67%, an 18-point increase, while the state rose 3 points. Math increased 5 points, from 35% to 40%; the school moved from below the state in both all-grade subjects to slightly above it in math and clearly above it in ELA. SchoolDigger gives the school 3 stars and ranks it 446th of 1,126 statewide, at the 60th percentile. Other context includes a 10.8 student-teacher ratio and 31% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. Chronic absenteeism was 16% in 2025–2026, between the district’s 11% and the state’s 24%.
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