Summary:
Zip code 67548 has one middle school, La Crosse Middle School, serving grades 7–8 and enrolling 37 students. Since it is the only school listed, there is no within-area school comparison; area-wide results describe this school alone. In 2025–2026, proficiency was 42% in ELA, 25% in math and 38% in science, compared with state results of 46%, 41% and 38%, respectively. The clearest concern for families is math: the school was 16 points below the state overall, with results below the state in both grades.
Within the school, grade 7 ELA is the strongest standout: 50% were proficient, 6 points above the state, while grade 8 ELA was 31%, 11 points below. That 19-point difference between grades means the all-grades ELA result does not describe both grades equally. Math was the weakest subject overall, at 25% proficient versus 41% statewide; the shortfall was 13 points in grade 7 and 15 points in grade 8. Science was closest to the state overall, at 37.5% versus 38.2%, about 1 point lower. There is no separate school-level leader or trailer in this ZIP code.
From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the school improved in ELA, from 31% to 42%, and math, from 23% to 25%, but science fell from 46% to 38%. ELA made the clearest relative progress: its gap with the state narrowed from 14 points to 4 points. Math’s gap widened slightly, from 16 to 16 points, while science shifted from 4 points above the state to about 1 point below. SchoolDigger gives the school two stars and ranks it 239th of 368, at the 35th percentile, compared with 243rd of 362 and the 33rd percentile in 2023–2024. The student-teacher ratio was 7.4, and 38% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025. Chronic absenteeism was 6%, below the LaCrosse district rate of 10% and the state rate of 18%.
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