Summary:
Athens Middle is the only middle school in the Athens School District, serving grades 6–8 to about 79 students in the small community of Athens, Wisconsin. Because there are no other middle schools in the district to compare against, the most useful comparisons are between the school and the state, and between the school's own recent years. Athens Middle is currently a 3-star school, ranking 307th of 643 middle schools statewide — the 52nd percentile — which is above the state median but down from the 63rd percentile in 2024-25, though still ahead of its 38th-percentile, 2-star result in 2023-24.
The school's clearest academic strength is 8th-grade Social Studies, where proficiency was 76.92% in 2025-26 and 83.87% in 2024-25, both well above state rates of 64.63% and 62.51%. Science 8 also topped the state in both years, and several ELA grades have performed well: ELA 8 reached 74.19% in 2024-25 and ELA 7 hit 62.50% that year, though ELA 8 then fell about 20 points and ELA 7 slipped to slightly below state in the latest year. Chronic absenteeism is a major highlight at 5.6%, far below the district's 6.0% and the state's 17.3%, and the dropout rate is 0.0%. Math is the consistent weak spot: every math grade was below state in 2024-25, and in 2025-26 Math 7 came in at 42.42% (more than 13 points below state) and Math 8 at 46.15%. With only about 79 students, year-to-year swings in any single grade can be large enough that one or two students shift the percentage by several points, so changes should be read with caution. Per-student spending is $15,164, the student-to-teacher ratio is 12.9, and 30.38% of students receive free or reduced-price lunch.
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