Summary:
Deerfield Middle is the only middle school serving the Deerfield Community School District in Deerfield, Wisconsin, educating 114 students in grades 7–8. The district ranks 279th of 432 in Wisconsin, placing it in the 35th percentile with 2 stars. About 24.56% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch (roughly 28 of 114), the school spends $13,209 per student, and the student-teacher ratio is 11:1.
There is real strength here. In 2025–26, 7th graders scored 68.63% in ELA and 72.55% in math, well above the state's 55.33% and 55.67% — advantages of 13.30 and 16.88 percentage points. In 2024–25, the 8th grade was above the state average in every tested subject: ELA by 14.03 points, math by 16.94, social studies by 5.49, and science by 15.96. Attendance and dropout figures are also favorable: chronic absenteeism was 14.0%, better than the state's 17.3% but above the district's 11.2%, and the dropout rate was 0.0% against the state's 1.1%.
The current challenge is the 2025–26 8th grade, which fell below the state in all four tested subjects — ELA by 9.38 points, math by 3.67, social studies by 6.30, and science by 10.19. Science showed the largest one-year drop, falling 24.33 points from 66.00% to 41.67%. Reflecting this, the school slipped from the 67th percentile with 3 stars in both 2023–24 and 2024–25 to the 47th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–26. Because each grade holds only about 57 students, a 10-point swing can mean just a handful of kids, so these year-to-year changes reflect cohort differences as much as anything else.
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