Summary:
Freedom, Wisconsin has one public middle school in this data set: Freedom Middle, serving grades 6–8 with 339 students as part of the Freedom Area School District. Because it is the only middle school in the city, comparisons are best made against district and state averages and against the school's own past performance.
Freedom Middle stands out as a high performer. In 2025–26 it ranked 81st of 643 Wisconsin middle schools — the 87th percentile — with a 4-star rating, up from the 70th percentile in 2024–25, and it has held 4 stars for three straight years. The Freedom Area School District is ranked 79th of 432 districts, also with 4 stars. In 2025–26, the school beat the state average in every reported Forward Exam area: ELA grades 6–8, math grades 6–8, grade 8 social studies, and grade 8 science. Strongest margins were grade 8 math (+19.60 points), grade 8 science (+19.43 points), and grade 8 ELA (+17.62 points).
Year over year, gains were broad but not uniform. Grade 8 science rose 15.63 points, grade 8 ELA 18.23 points, grade 6 math 14.20 points, and grade 8 math 12.89 points. Grade 7 math declined from 78.22% to 72.41%, though it still sat 16.74 points above the state. In 2024–25, the school was above the state in seven of eight assessments; grade 8 ELA was 0.20 points below, essentially at average. Chronic absenteeism was 13.4% — better than the state's 17.3% but above the district's 11.2% — and the dropout rate was 0.4%, below the state's 1.1% but above the district's 0.2%. Free/reduced lunch was 18.58%, per-student spending $12,633, and the student-teacher ratio 13.5. Watch items are the grade 8 ELA result from 2024–25, the grade 7 math dip, and absenteeism.
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