Summary:
Somerset School District in Somerset, Wisconsin (ZIP 54025) is served by a single middle school, Somerset Middle, which enrolls 415 students in grades 5 through 8. Because it is the only middle school in the district, its results and the district's middle-level results are identical. The district ranks 99th of 432 in Wisconsin (77th percentile), and the school has earned 4 stars in each of the last three years.
Academically, Somerset Middle beats the Wisconsin state average in every subject at every grade level in both years on record — all 20 comparisons. Overall proficiency averaged 69.07% in 2025-2026, about 14 points above the state's 54.95%. Eighth grade is the engine of these results: 86.67 in Social Studies, 79.05 in Math, 76.19 in Science, and 75.24 in ELA, for an 8th grade average of 79.29 — more than 23 points above 6th grade's 56.32. Sixth grade is the consistent soft spot, the only grade whose advantage over the state falls to single digits in both years (just +0.84 points in ELA in 2025-2026). The apparent 7th-grade Math drop from 81.73 to 57.78 is a cohort effect — a strong class moved up to 8th grade and a different class replaced it — though the current 6th grade cohort did decline roughly 13-14 points from its 5th-grade baseline.
Beyond test scores, attendance is a genuine institutional strength: chronic absenteeism is 5.6% versus 17.3% statewide, and the dropout rate is 0.0% against Wisconsin's 1.1%. About 22.89% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, per-student spending is $14,626, and the student-teacher ratio is 14.5 to 1. In short, this is a consistently strong, above-state-average school whose only clear soft spot is 6th grade.
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