Summary:
Saint Croix Central Middle is the only middle school in the Saint Croix Central School District, serving grades 5–8 to 476 students in Hammond, Wisconsin, while the district as a whole ranks 205th of 432 Wisconsin districts, at the 53rd percentile with 3 stars.
The school’s clearest strengths are in 8th grade social studies, where 82.05% of students were proficient versus the state’s 64.63%, and 5th grade math at 72.73% versus the state’s 51.81%. Seventh grade English language arts climbed 14.77 points to 70.80%, and in 2025–26 the school exceeded the state in 9 of 10 tested subjects. Attendance is a relative strength as well: chronic absenteeism was 9.0%, below the district’s 10.3% and far below the state’s 17.3%, and the reported dropout rate was 0.0%.
At the same time, the school’s trajectory is worth watching. Its rank fell from the 90th percentile with 5 stars in 2023–24 to the 69th percentile with 3 stars in 2025–26, with 2024–25 at the 80th percentile with 4 stars. Sixth grade math dropped 21.32 points to 52.07%, the only tested area below the state’s 53.60%, and 8th grade ELA, math, and science all declined from the prior year’s 8th grade class — a different group of students, so this is not the same children losing ground. Across the listed tests, the school’s simple average slipped from 67.08% to 64.02%, while the district went from 66.02% to 64.14%, narrowing the school’s edge over the state from about 13 points to about 9. For resource context, the school reported 18.28% free/reduced lunch, $15,327 per-student spending, and a 13.5 student-teacher ratio in 2024–25.
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