Summary:
North Fond du Lac School District includes just one middle school: Bessie Allen Middle, a 339-student school at 305 McKinley St in North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, serving grades 6–8. Because it is the only middle school in the district, its results and the district's middle-grade results are essentially the same, so families are looking at a single school rather than comparing options.
The school's clearest strength is attendance. Chronic absenteeism was 2.4% in 2024–2025, far below the 10.7% district rate and the 17.3% state rate, and the dropout rate was 0.0% versus 0.9% in the district and 1.1% statewide — a notable result given that 48.67% of students are eligible for free/reduced lunch. Academics also improved broadly from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: Social Studies 8 climbed 21.44 points to 62.39%, Science 8 climbed 18.25 points to 45.87%, Math 6 climbed 16.20 points to 49.53%, and ELA 8 climbed 8.69 points to 46.79%.
Even so, proficiency remains below state averages in every reported subject and grade. The narrowest gaps were Social Studies 8 (2.24 points below the state) and Math 6 (4.07 points below); the widest were ELA 7 (17.96 points below) and Math 8 (14.22 points below). Math 8 was also the only reported test to slip year over year, down 2.45 points. In 2025–2026 the school ranked 451 of 643 ranked Wisconsin middle schools (30th percentile, 2 stars), up from 503 of 628 (20th percentile, 1 star) the year before. Per-student spending was $14,893, with a student-teacher ratio of 14.6.
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