Summary:
The Saint Francis School District in Wisconsin has only one middle school, Deer Creek Intermediate, which serves students in grades 6-8. While the school has seen a decline in its statewide ranking over the past few years, dropping from 292nd out of 640 Wisconsin middle schools in 2022-2023 to 385th out of 628 in 2024-2025, it continues to perform above the district average in most subjects and grade levels on the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's standardized test.
Deer Creek Intermediate faces some challenges, including a relatively high percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch (45.72%), indicating a significant population of economically disadvantaged students. The school's chronic absenteeism rate of 17.7% is also higher than the state average, which could be impacting student learning. However, the school's dropout rate of 1.3% is relatively low, suggesting that most students are completing their middle school education.
Despite these challenges, Deer Creek Intermediate benefits from a relatively favorable learning environment, with a student-teacher ratio of 12.4, which is slightly lower than the state average. The school's leadership and educators may need to explore targeted strategies to address the declining performance, socioeconomic factors, and attendance issues in order to improve the educational outcomes for the students at Deer Creek Intermediate.
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