Summary:
Saint Croix Falls Middle is the only middle school in the Saint Croix Falls School District, serving grades 5–8 to 297 students at 740 Maple Dr in Saint Croix Falls, Wisconsin, a small city in the scenic St. Croix River valley near the Minnesota border — so there is no competing school to compare it against locally, and the useful benchmark is the state.
The school's clearest strength is English Language Arts. Every tested grade scored above the state average in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026; in the most recent year, 6th grade ELA reached 73.24% versus 53.60% statewide, and 5th, 7th, and 8th grades were all comfortably above state. Math is a mixed picture. In 2024–2025, every math grade beat the state, including 5th grade at 82.81%. In 2025–2026, 6th grade math stayed very strong at 71.83% (+18 points vs. state) and 7th grade was slightly above state at 59.15%, but 5th grade math (49.38%) and 8th grade math (49.37%) both fell just below state. Eighth grade science, at 51.90%, is essentially even with the state's 51.86%.
The watch areas are worth noting. Eighth grade social studies dropped to 53.16%, about 11.5 points below state and well below the school's own 71.83% the year before — the largest subject-level decline in the data. The school's state rank also slipped across three years, from 101st of 641 (84th percentile, 4 stars) in 2023–2024 to 237th of 643 (63rd percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026, though the district itself still rates strongly at 86th of 432 districts (80th percentile, 4 stars). Attendance is better than state but weaker than district: chronic absenteeism is 12.3% versus 17.3% statewide and 8.7% districtwide, with a 0.0% dropout rate. About 32.32% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending is $14,069, and the student-teacher ratio is 16.5.
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