Summary:
The Glendale-River Hills School District has one middle school, Glen Hills Middle, serving grades 6-8. The school has seen fluctuations in its statewide ranking, with a ranking of 291 out of 628 Wisconsin middle schools in the 2024-2025 school year, down from 360 out of 641 in the 2023-2024 school year. The school's performance on the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's standardized test, shows mixed results, with the school performing above the state average in some subject areas and grade levels, but lagging behind in others.
Glen Hills Middle has a student population of 488 students, with a free and reduced-price lunch rate of 36.48%, indicating a significant portion of the student population comes from low-income families. The school's per-student spending for the 2020-2021 school year was $18,196, which is higher than the state average, and the student-teacher ratio is 10.3, lower than the state average. However, the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 17.7% is higher than the state average, which could be a contributing factor to the school's academic performance.
To improve the school's overall performance, the Glendale-River Hills School District may need to focus on targeted interventions, addressing chronic absenteeism, and evaluating the effectiveness of the resources being invested in the school. The mixed academic performance suggests the need for a closer examination of the school's curriculum, teaching practices, and support systems to address areas of weakness and ensure all students are receiving the resources they need to succeed.
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