Summary:
Muskego-Norway School District serves its middle grades at two schools — Muskego Lakes Middle and Lake Denoon Middle — both covering grades 5 through 8 and together enrolling about 1,349 students. Both rank among Wisconsin's strongest middle schools, at 26th and 30th out of 643 (the top ~4%), each earning 5 stars in a district ranked 23rd of 432 statewide. Both schools score at least 95% proficient in math at the district level, and their math averages sit roughly 32 points above the state.
The two schools are nearly identical in size (676 vs. 673 students) and spending ($15,344 vs. $15,192 per student), yet their strengths split by grade. Muskego Lakes leads in 5th and 7th grade in both ELA and math and posted the highest single result — 91.23% proficient in 7th grade math, about 36 points above the state. Lake Denoon leads in 6th grade in both subjects and in 8th grade math, where it recorded the district's top score (89.68%); all four of its math grade levels exceed 80%. Muskego Lakes scores above the district average in 7 of 10 tested areas, Lake Denoon in 3 of 10. Eighth grade is where they converge, separated by less than a point in ELA and Social Studies.
The clearest area to watch is science: Muskego Lakes at 72.99% and Lake Denoon at 67.10% — the softest subject at each school, though both far above the state's 51.86%. On attendance, dropout is 0.0% at both, and chronic absenteeism is 9.2% and 10.3%, well below the state's 17.3% but above the district's 8.9%, with Lake Denoon about 1.4 points higher. Free/reduced lunch is near 10% at both, and spending and student-teacher ratios (13.7 vs. 14.3) are close, so the grade-level differences look more like cohort effects than a resource gap.
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