Summary:
Families in the Oak Creek-Franklin area are served by two middle schools, both covering grades 6–8: Oak Creek East Middle with 935 students and Oak Creek West Middle with 531, for roughly 1,466 middle-schoolers combined. Both belong to the Oak Creek-Franklin Joint School District, which ranks 148th of 432 Wisconsin districts (66th percentile, 3 stars). Each school earned 4 stars in all three reported rank years, and both outscored the state in every reported 2025-26 test area.
Oak Creek West Middle is the stronger current performer. Its 2025-26 rank is 123rd of 643 schools (81st percentile), and its overall simple-average proficiency of 68.25% edges East's 66.80%, the district's 67.24%, and the state's 55.51%. West beat the district in all four subject averages and improved its overall average by +4.74 points year over year. West leads in 6th-grade ELA (74.50%), 7th-grade Math (70.59%), 8th-grade Social Studies (72.67%), and 8th-grade Science (62.21%). Oak Creek East Middle is competitive: it posted the highest single score in the set, 6th-grade Math at 75.00%, plus lower chronic absenteeism (11.2% vs. West's 14.3%; district 14.0%, state 17.3%) and a dropout rate of 0.1%.
West's results come alongside a higher free/reduced-price lunch rate (45.39% vs. East's 25.56%). West also spends slightly more per student ($13,584 vs. $13,254) with a slightly lower student-teacher ratio (14.7 vs. 15.1), though these modest differences should not be read as causes. In short, West leads on current proficiency and growth, while East offers lower absenteeism and a standout 6th-grade Math score.
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