Summary:
Elcho, Wisconsin has one middle school, Elcho Middle, serving grades 6–8 with 48 students in the Elcho School District, a small community where this school is the district’s only middle-school option; the district is ranked 261st of 432 statewide (40th percentile, 2 stars).
The school’s rank has declined over three years: from 318th of 641 (50th percentile, 3 stars) in 2023–2024 to 382nd of 628 (39th percentile, 2 stars) in 2024–2025, then 504th of 643 (22nd percentile, 1 star) in 2025–2026. In 2025–2026, math was below the state in every tested grade, by roughly 20 to 31 percentage points. ELA was mixed: 6th grade was 61.11% proficient versus the state’s 54.95%, and 7th grade was 50.00% versus 55.33%, but 8th grade was 23.08% versus 54.38%. In 2024–2025, 8th-grade social studies (88.24%) and science (76.47%) were far above state averages, but in 2025–2026 they fell to 46.15% and 38.46%, below state. These are different grade cohorts, so year-to-year swings are not direct measures of the same students’ growth.
Because Elcho Middle is very small, each grade has only about a dozen to high teens students, so one or two students can shift percentages by 6–8 points or more. Chronic absenteeism is 20.8%, better than the district’s 25.0% but above the state’s 17.3%, while the dropout rate was 0.0% in 2024–2025, below the state’s 1.1%. Per-student spending is $27,618, and the student-teacher ratio is 8.8. For every reported Forward Exam result, the district percentage equals the school percentage, showing that Elcho Middle drives the district’s results at these grades.
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