Summary:
Zip code 57279 has one listed middle school, Wilmot Middle School - 03, serving grades 6–8 with 58 students. There is no other local middle school to compare it with, so the clearest picture comes from its results against state and district figures. In 2025–2026, 44% of Wilmot students were proficient in English language arts (ELA), compared with 49% statewide, while 18% were proficient in math, compared with 44% statewide. Math is the clearest concern: Wilmot was 26 percentage points below the state, and that gap narrowed by less than 1 point from the prior year.
There is no local top or bottom school because Wilmot is the only school listed. SchoolDigger ranked it 125th of 151 schools, in the 17th percentile, with one star in 2025–2026. Its ELA result was 1 point above the district’s 43% but 5 points below the state; math was 15 points below the district. Eighth-grade science proficiency was 21%, compared with 41% statewide, a gap of 20 points. Results vary by grade: sixth-grade ELA was 50%, 2 points above the state, while eighth-grade ELA was 38%, 14 points below. Math was below the state in every grade, with the largest gap in grade 6: 11% proficient versus 42% statewide.
ELA improved substantially: Wilmot’s result rose 15 points, from 29% in 2024–2025 to 44% in 2025–2026, while the state result fell 2 points; the gap narrowed by 17 points. Eighth-grade science rose 2 points, and its state gap narrowed by 4 points. The school’s student-teacher ratio was 13.1 in 2024–2025, and 55% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that school year; these figures describe the school but do not explain its results. Chronic absenteeism was 13% in 2025–2026, lower than the state’s 20% but higher than the district’s 10%.
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