Summary:
Tomahawk, Wisconsin is home to a single public middle school — Tomahawk Middle — which serves grades 6–8 with about 259 students (roughly 86 per grade) and operates within the Tomahawk School District. Because it is the only middle school in the district, there is no local school-to-school comparison to make; the most useful benchmark is how it performs against Wisconsin as a whole.
On that measure, the school's clearest strength is attendance. Its chronic absenteeism rate of 4.1% is about one-quarter of the statewide 17.3% and also below its own district's 5.0% and . Academically, the school outperformed state averages in six of eight reported measures in 2025-26, up from only three of eight the prior year. Its widest margins came in 8th grade Social Studies (74.32% proficient vs. 64.63% statewide) and 8th grade Science (62.16% vs. 51.86%). Those results lifted its state rating to 3 stars and the 61st percentile (250th of 643), recovering from a 2-star, 45th-percentile year and matching its 2023-24 standing.
Two caveats matter. First, results swing sharply between grades: in the same year, 7th grade math ran 14.21 points above state while 6th grade math ran 14.13 points below — a gap representing roughly a dozen students in a school this size. Second, several large year-over-year gains reflect cohorts changing rather than the same students improving; the weakest group, 2024-25's 8th grade math class at 40.26%, has since moved on. Eighth grade ELA is the one persistent soft spot, sitting below state in both years. With 48.26% of students receiving free or reduced lunch, $16,906 spent per student, and a 12.9:1 student-teacher ratio, both the proficiency results and the near-zero absenteeism rate are notable.
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