Summary:
Altoona Middle is the only middle school in the Altoona School District in Wisconsin, serving grades 6–8 with 394 students. Because it is the district's sole middle school, its school-level test results are identical to the district's middle-school results, so the comparisons below are between Altoona Middle and statewide averages.
The school earned 4 stars in 2025–2026, ranking 171st of 643 Wisconsin middle schools — the 73rd percentile — up from 253rd of 628 (60th percentile, 3 stars) in 2024–2025. The district as a whole also holds 4 stars and ranks 124th of 432, at the 71st percentile. Mathematics is Altoona Middle's clearest strength: 2025–2026 proficiency was 70% in grade 6, 70% in grade 7, and 77.52% in grade 8, all well above state figures, with grade 8 running 23.85 percentage points ahead of the state.
English language arts was above the state average in every tested grade in 2025–2026 (59.23% in grade 6, 59.17% in grade 7, 57.36% in grade 8), a turnaround from 2024–2025, when grades 7 and 8 fell below state. Grade 8 science rebounded from 44.54%, below the state's 50.04%, to 57.36%, and grade 8 social studies improved from 63.03% to 71.32%. The school's 13.6% chronic absenteeism rate is better than the state's 17.3% but higher than the district's 9.5%, making it the main watch point. The dropout rate is 1.1% at the school, district, and state levels, and the school enrolls 35.28% free/reduced-lunch students, with $14,550 per-student spending and a 12.3:1 student–teacher ratio.
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