Summary:
Sauk Prairie School District has just one middle school — Sauk Prairie Middle in Sauk City, Wisconsin — serving grades 6 through 8 with 595 students. Because it is the only middle school in the district, there are no other local middle schools to compare it against, and the district's middle-grade test results mirror the school's exactly. The most useful comparison for parents is the school against the state of Wisconsin.
By nearly every measure, the school performs well above state averages. It holds a 4-star rating for 2025–2026 and ranks 111th of 643 middle schools statewide, in the 83rd percentile — up from the 76th percentile in both 2023–2024 and 2024–2025. In 2025–2026, it outperformed the state in all eight reported Forward Exam subject and grade areas. Eighth grade was especially strong: social studies at 80.56%, science at 72.78%, mathematics at 71.11%, and ELA at 70.00%. The largest margin over the state was 8th grade science at +20.92 percentage points, followed by 8th grade mathematics at +17.44 percentage points.
Year over year, most subjects improved. Seventh grade ELA made the biggest jump, rising from 56.67% to 67.59%, and 6th grade mathematics climbed from 59.52% to 67.84%. The single decline was 8th grade science, down from 76.50% to 72.78%, though it still leads the state by the widest margin of any subject. Non-test indicators are also favorable: chronic absenteeism is 11.8%, below the district's 14.9% and the state's 17.3%, and the dropout rate is 0.5%, lower than both. For context, 24.87% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending is $13,616, and the student-teacher ratio is 13.2:1.
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