Summary:
Holy Hill Area School District in southeastern Wisconsin has just one middle school — Richfield Middle, a grades 5–8 building at 3117 State Road 167 in Richfield serving 206 students — so families here have a single, clearly defined option rather than a set of schools to choose between.
Academically, that one option performs at the top of the state. Richfield Middle has held a 5-star rating and a spot in roughly the 92nd–93rd percentile of Wisconsin middle schools for three straight years (43rd, 50th, and 49th of about 630–640 schools). In 2025-26, all ten tested subject-and-grade areas beat the state average — a first for this school, since 5th grade ELA lagged the state the year before. Eighth grade is the peak: math and social studies each hit 86.67%, and science reached 80.00%, versus state rates near 52–65%. Math scores climb steadily from 5th grade (68.63%) through 8th grade (86.67%), while ELA dips in 7th grade before recovering.
School climate is a strength. Chronic absenteeism is 9.8% — well below Wisconsin's 17.3%, though slightly above the district's 7.2% — and the dropout rate is 0.0%, which is expected for a middle school. About 16.02% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and the school spends $17,680 per student with a 10:1 student–teacher ratio, describing a relatively low-poverty, well-resourced building. One caution for parents reading year-to-year numbers: with roughly 50 students per grade, each student moves a grade-level percentage by about 2 points, so small swings are noisy. The three-year ranking history is the more reliable signal — and it consistently shows a top-decile school.
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