Summary:
Middle schools in the New Glarus School District come down to a single school: New Glarus Middle, located at 1619 2nd St in the small community of New Glarus, Wisconsin. It serves grades 7–8 with 214 students. The district as a whole is ranked 16th of 432 districts in Wisconsin, placing it in the 96th percentile with 5 stars, so families here are looking at one of the strongest districts in the state.
New Glarus Middle stands out statewide as well. It ranks 34th of 643 middle schools for 2025–2026, in the 95th percentile with 5 stars, up from 39th of 628 (94th percentile, 5 stars) in 2024–2025 and 73rd of 641 (89th percentile, 4 stars) in 2023–2024. Test scores are above the state average in every reported subject and grade. In 2025–2026, the school's advantage over the state ranged from +19.33 percentage points in 7th grade Mathematics to +27.83 points in 8th grade Science. Averaged across the six reported 2025–2026 tests, the school sits at about 78.4% proficient versus about 55.9% statewide, a gap of roughly 22.4 points. Comparing the same subjects year over year, 8th grade Science rose from 65.33 to 79.69 and Social Studies from 78.67 to 84.38, while 8th grade English Language Arts dipped from 87.84 to 75.00 — still far above the state's 54.38.
Other indicators are favorable. Chronic absenteeism is 5.2%, versus 8.8% in the district and 17.3% statewide, and the dropout rate is 0.0% compared with 1.1% statewide. Free/reduced lunch is 17.76%, spending per student is $14,006, and the student-teacher ratio is 12.4; state averages for those three metrics are not provided. One note: the school is listed as grades 7–8, but 2024–2025 test data also includes 6th grade, so year-over-year comparisons involving 6th grade should be read carefully. Because New Glarus has only one middle school, district test values mirror the school's, making state comparisons the better benchmark. No test scores in this data set are suppressed or bounded.
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