Summary:
Seymour Middle is the only middle school in the Seymour Community School District in Wisconsin, serving grades 6–8 with 284 students, or roughly 95 students per grade level.
Academically, the school's clearest standout is 7th-grade math, where 71.28% of students tested proficient — the highest result in the data and 15.61 percentage points above the state. 8th-grade science (56.41%) and 8th-grade social studies (65.38%) also beat the state, and the school outperformed the district in 6 of 8 tested subject-grade areas and the state in 6 of 8. The main weak spot is 8th-grade math at 47.44%, below both the district and state and down 4.73 points from the prior year; it is the only assessment where the school trails both benchmarks. 6th-grade ELA is above the state but below the district. Year over year, the school improved in 5 of 8 areas, with the biggest gains in 6th-grade ELA and 6th-grade math. A simple unweighted average of the eight results is about 58.3%, versus roughly 55.3% for the district and 55.5% for the state.
The school is also trending upward in state ranking, moving from 316th of 641 (51st percentile) to 263rd of 643 (59th percentile) while holding 3 stars, even though the district as a whole sits at the 32nd percentile among Wisconsin districts. Engagement indicators look favorable: the dropout rate is 0.0% versus 0.1% in the district and 1.1% statewide, and chronic absenteeism is 16.7%, below the district and state at 17.3%. The school reports 42.25% free/reduced-price lunch eligibility, $17,736 in per-student spending, and a 10.9:1 student-teacher ratio. Because each grade has only about 95 students, a single student can shift a grade-level rate by roughly 1 percentage point, so small cohort changes can cause noticeable swings.
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