Summary:
The Random Lake School District in Wisconsin contains just one middle school — Random Lake Middle, serving grades 6–8 with 144 students at 605 Random Lake Rd in the Random Lake area. Because it is the district's only middle school, there are no in-district peers to compare it against, so the meaningful benchmarks are the school's own prior years, the state of Wisconsin, and the district as a whole.
The school's standout strength is attendance: chronic absenteeism is 3.5%, compared with 4.4% for the district and 17.3% statewide — roughly a five-fold advantage over Wisconsin. The dropout rate is 0.0% (state 1.1%), the student–teacher ratio is a low 10.8, and per-student spending is $16,918 in 2024–25, which together describe a small, well-staffed setting. Academically, 7th grade is the bright spot: math proficiency is 62.79% (about 7.1 points above state) and ELA is 55.81%, the only grade level where the school beats the state in both tested subjects. Notably, at the 28th percentile the school outperforms its own district, which sits at the 14th percentile.
The concern is 8th grade, where all four tested subjects fall below state — math by about 19.7 points, social studies 18.2, science 16.2, and ELA 13.3 — and math 8 dropped 33.6 points year over year. Overall, the school's percentile has slid from 64 to 42 to 28 across three years, with the average gap to state widening from roughly −2.3 to −9.7 points in a single year. Parents should weigh these swings carefully: with roughly 45–50 students per grade, a single student is worth about 2 percentage points, so large grade-level moves are noisy signals rather than proof of a program collapse or a sudden turnaround. The clearest actionable takeaway is to watch the 8th grade math and science pipeline and re-check next cycle before treating the decline as a trend.
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