Summary:
Clear Lake School District in Wisconsin contains exactly one middle school — Clear Lake Junior High — which serves grades 7–8 and enrolls 72 students, making it a small school where a handful of students can noticeably move the results. Because it is the only middle school in the Clear Lake School District, the school's test scores and the district's middle-school scores are identical.
Academically, the clearest strength is mathematics. In 2025–26, 68.75% of seventh graders and 67.5% of eighth graders were proficient in math, roughly 13 to 14 percentage points above Wisconsin's state averages, and math was also well above state the year before. Social studies and science also came in above state: eighth-grade social studies at 72.5% (about 8 points above) and science at 57.5% (about 6 points above), though science slipped from 65.63% in 2024–25. Dropout is not a concern at 0.0%, matching the district and below the state's 1.1%. Chronic absenteeism of 9.7% is far better than the state's 17.3%, though slightly above the district's 7.5%. In state rankings, the school sat in the 79th percentile with 4 stars in 2024–25 and the 60th percentile with 3 stars in 2025–26 — still above the district's overall 50th percentile, 2-star rating.
The main worry is English language arts. Eighth-grade ELA dropped from 71.88% proficient in 2024–25 (nearly 18 points above state) to 42.5% in 2025–26 (about 12 points below state), a 29-point fall that likely drove the ranking decline; seventh-grade ELA also slipped below state. With only about 30–40 students per grade, these swings may reflect which students moved through the grade rather than a lasting trend, so families should watch multi-year patterns. For context, the school reports 19.44% free/reduced lunch participation, $15,006 in per-student spending, and a 14:1 student-teacher ratio.
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