Summary:
The Potosi School District in Wisconsin has only one middle school, Potosi Middle, which serves students in grades 6-8. While the school has some areas of strength, it also faces challenges in maintaining consistent academic performance and addressing issues like chronic absenteeism.
Potosi Middle has a relatively small enrollment of 53 students and a 37.74% free and reduced-price lunch rate, indicating a significant population of economically disadvantaged students. The school's academic performance, as measured by proficiency rates on the Forward Exam, varies across grade levels and subjects. In some areas, such as 8th-grade Mathematics and 7th-grade English Language Arts (ELA), the school outperforms the state average, but in others, like 6th-grade ELA, it falls behind. The school's overall performance, as reflected in its SchoolDigger ranking, has fluctuated in recent years, ranging from 170th out of 640 Wisconsin middle schools in 2022-2023 to 354th out of 641 in 2023-2024.
While Potosi Middle has a low student-teacher ratio of 10.2 and a relatively low dropout rate, it faces challenges with a high chronic absenteeism rate of 17.7%, which is significantly higher than the state average. The school's per-student spending for the 2020-2021 school year was $14,113, which is above the state average. Overall, Potosi Middle appears to be a school with both strengths and weaknesses, and continued monitoring and targeted interventions may be necessary to help the school improve and better serve its students.
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