Summary:
Middle schools in the Kettle Moraine School District come down to a single campus: Kettle Moraine Middle in Dousman, Wisconsin, serving grades 6–8 with 726 students. The district overall ranks 68th of 432 districts in Wisconsin — the 84th percentile, with a 4-star rating — yet its middle school performs well above that district-wide profile.
Kettle Moraine Middle has been a 5-star school for three straight years: 21st of 641 middle schools in 2023–2024 (97th percentile), 31st of 628 in 2024–2025 (95th percentile), and 24th of 643 in 2025–2026 (96th percentile). That places it consistently in the top 3–5% of Wisconsin middle schools. Proficiency on the Forward Exam in 2025–2026 ranged from 73.71% (Grade 8 ELA) to 86.38% (Grade 8 Social Studies), and every reported subject and grade in both 2025–2026 and 2024–2025 was well above the state average, with gaps of roughly 19 to 29 percentage points. Grade 7 was the strongest group, at 83.26% in ELA and 83.70% in math. Two relative watch points: Grade 8 ELA slipped 3.70 points year over year, and Science (75.59%) is strong versus the state but lower than the school's other subjects.
Context indicators support the academic picture. Chronic absenteeism is 7.6%, below the district's 8.5% and less than half the state's 17.3%, and the dropout rate is 0.0% versus 1.1% statewide. The school reports 11.16% free/reduced lunch, per-student spending of $14,315, and a 15:1 student-teacher ratio; these are favorable but the data cannot show they cause the results. Because it is the district's only middle school, its scores are essentially the district's middle-level scores, making the middle grades a clear strength within the district.
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