Summary:
There is one middle school in the Evansville Community School District in Wisconsin: J C McKenna Middle, which serves grades 6–8 with 362 students in Evansville, a small city in south-central Wisconsin. Because it is the district's only listed middle school, district-level results essentially mirror this school's results, and its performance can be compared with statewide averages for the same grades and subjects.
J C McKenna Middle is a consistently 3-star school. It ranked 247 of 643 schools in 2025–2026, placing it at the 62nd percentile — above the Evansville Community School District's 50th percentile, though below its own 68th percentile in 2023–2024. Its clearest strengths are in mathematics in the earlier grades and in social studies: 7th grade math students scored 68.29% proficient, 12.62 points above the state, while 6th grade math reached 62.39% (8.79 points above) and 8th grade social studies 70.41% (5.78 points above). Seventh grade English Language Arts also exceeded the state at 59.68%. Attendance indicators are favorable, with a dropout rate of 0.8% versus the state's 1.1% and chronic absenteeism of 15.5% versus 17.3% statewide.
The main areas to watch are in 8th grade. Eighth grade math proficiency was 48.98%, 4.69 points below the state, and 8th grade ELA was 52.04%, 2.34 points below. ELA 8 showed the largest single-year decline in the data, falling 11.60 points from 63.64% in 2024–2025, when it was 9.67 points above the state. Eighth grade math also slipped, from 52.89% to 48.98%. On the positive side, science improved from 47.11% (2.93 points below the state) to 53.06% (1.20 points above). Overall, the school averages about 58.8% proficient across tested areas in 2025–2026, above the state's roughly 55.5%, with performance varying noticeably by grade and subject.
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