Summary:
Baraboo, Wisconsin has just one middle school in this data set: Jack Young Middle, serving grades 6–8 with 548 students as part of the Baraboo School District. Because it is the district's only middle school, its results are also the district's middle-level results. The district is ranked 282 of 432 Wisconsin districts (35th percentile, 2 stars), and Jack Young Middle itself ranks 386 of 643 Wisconsin schools in 2025–2026, placing it in the 40th percentile with 2 stars — improved from the 35th percentile a year earlier, but still below its 47th percentile in 2023–2024.
Academically, the strongest showing is in 8th grade, where ELA (54.71% proficient) and mathematics (54.12%) both edge just above state averages, social studies (63.53%) is close to the state's 64.63%, and science (50.59%) sits 1.27 points below the state but improved 5.34 points from the prior year. The clearest gaps are in the earlier grades: 7th grade ELA is 41.76%, 13.57 points below the state and down 5.06 points year over year; 6th grade ELA improved 5.94 points to 46.06% but remains 8.89 points below the state; and 6th grade math is 44.24%, 9.36 points below. Overall, the average of reported school results rose from 48.21% to 50.70%, narrowing the gap to the state from roughly 6.20 points to 4.81 points.
Outside test scores, chronic absenteeism is 19.1% — nearly 1 in 5 students — above Wisconsin's 17.3% but slightly below the district's 19.5%. The reported dropout rate is low at 0.2% (district 0.8%, state 1.1%), though dropout is not a typical measure for grades 6–8. Jack Young Middle spends $14,326 per student with an 11:1 student-teacher ratio. Free/reduced-lunch percentage is not reported, so economic context for these results is unavailable.
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