Summary:
Lake Holcombe Middle is the only middle school in the Lake Holcombe School District, serving grades 6–8 with just 52 students in the small rural community of Holcombe, Wisconsin. Because the district has no other middle school, every district-level test figure is identical to the school's own — the numbers describe the same students either way.
The school has improved its standing over three years, climbing from the 19th percentile (1 star) in 2023-24 to the 45th percentile in 2024-25 and settling at the 39th percentile (2 stars) in 2025-26. Its brightest result is 6th grade ELA at 84.21%, about 29 points above the state. Two groups of students also posted solid math gains when tracked from one year to the next: the current 8th graders rose from 27.78% to 52.94% proficient, and the current 7th graders from 26.67% to 46.67%. Against that, the most recent 8th grade class is below the state in all four subjects it takes — ELA at 29.41% (state 54.38%), social studies at 35.29% (state 64.63%), science at 41.18%, and math at 52.94%, essentially at state. Across all eight assessments in 2025-26, the school averaged 50.3% versus the state's 55.5%, with only 2 of 8 above state.
Two contextual points matter for parents. First, chronic absenteeism is 28.0%, above both the state (17.3%) and the district's own 25.6%, making this the district's absenteeism hotspot. Second, the school is well resourced — a student-teacher ratio of 11.2 and per-student spending of $19,196 — with a majority of students (55.77%) qualifying for free or reduced lunch. The dropout rate is 0.0%. With only about 15–19 students per grade, a single student can shift a grade-level score by 5–7 points, so any one year's results should be read as a directional signal rather than a precise measurement; multi-year and cohort trends are far more meaningful.
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