Summary:
Middle schools in the Bruce School District are served by a single campus: Bruce Middle, located at 104 W Washington Ave in Bruce, Wisconsin, serving grades 6–8 with 73 students enrolled. Because it is the only middle school in the district, its results are also the district's middle school results. It is a small, high-need school: 100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, per-student spending is $20,231, and the student-teacher ratio is 10.1:1. The wider Bruce School District ranks 384 of 432 Wisconsin districts (11th percentile, 1 star).
Academically, 2025–2026 was a difficult year. Bruce Middle fell below the state in every listed subject and grade, with gaps ranging from 2.34 points in 7th grade math to 22.00 points in 7th grade ELA. This follows a much stronger 2024–2025, when the school was at or above the state in 6th grade math, 8th grade math, and 8th grade social studies (75% proficient). Those bright spots largely disappeared the next year: 8th grade social studies dropped to 46.15% and 8th grade math to 42.31%. The school's state rank mirrors that slide, falling from 104 of 641 (84th percentile, 4 stars) in 2023–2024, to 325 of 628 (48th percentile, 2 stars), to 494 of 643 (23rd percentile, 1 star) in 2025–2026.
There is one clear strength: chronic absenteeism at Bruce Middle is 10.0%, better than the district's 12.6% and the state's 17.3%. The reported dropout rate, 2.1%, is higher than both the district (1.8%) and the state (1.1%). With only 73 students, percentages can shift with just a few students, but the 2025–2026 decline appeared in every subject and grade, suggesting a broad pattern rather than a one-cohort fluctuation. Parents should note the school has shown it can perform near or above state level, as recently as 2024–2025.
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