Summary:
There is one middle school in the Tomorrow River School District: Amherst Middle, which serves grades 5–8 and enrolls 257 students — roughly 64 per grade. Because it is the district's only middle school, the district's middle-school picture is this school. It ranks 177th of 643 Wisconsin middle schools (72nd percentile, 4 stars), ahead of the district's overall 3-star rating, and it has held 4 stars for three straight years (136th of 641 in 2023–24 and 189th of 628 in 2024–25). The school spends $13,605 per student, has an 11.2:1 student-teacher ratio, and has a free/reduced lunch rate of 28.02%.
Academically, Amherst Middle is above both the district and the state. Across all 10 Forward Exam tests in 2025–26, its average is 64.96% proficient versus 62.05% for the district and 54.95% statewide. Math averages 65.78% (district 60.39%, state 53.69%), led by 5th grade math at 80.33% — 15.27 points above the district and 28.52 points above the state. ELA averages 64.36% and is above the state in every grade, peaking at 71.43% in 7th grade (16.10 points above the state). 8th grade science is 63.64% versus 51.86% statewide, and 8th grade social studies is 65.45%, slightly above the state's 64.63% but 4.55 points below the district's 70.00%.
The main concern is 8th grade math: 49.09% proficient, below the district (52.86%) and state (53.67%) and down 19.66 points from 2024–25. Overall the school improved 2.03 points year over year while the district fell 1.26 points. Climate indicators are strong: chronic absenteeism is 7.5%, below the district's 9.3% and well under the state's 17.3%, and the dropout rate is 0.8%, below the state's 1.1%. With only about 64 students per grade, single-year swings can reflect cohort changes rather than a schoolwide trend.
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