Summary:
Winter School District operates a single middle school, Winter Middle, serving grades 6 through 8 with 41 students in a small rural Wisconsin community. Because it is the only middle school in the district, district and school figures for these grades are identical, and the most useful comparisons are Winter Middle against Wisconsin state averages and against its own earlier results.
Academically, results shifted sharply between the two most recent years. In 2024–2025, Winter Middle matched or beat the state in four of eight Forward Exam subjects, including science 8 (64.29% vs. 50.04%), social studies 8 (71.43% vs. 62.51%), math 8 (57.14% vs. 53.06%), and ELA 6 (55.56% vs. 53.66%). In 2025–2026, every listed subject fell below state, with the widest gaps in math 8 (21.43% vs. 53.67%) and social studies 8 (38.46% vs. 64.63%). Grade 7 improved over its own prior year in ELA (25.00% to 44.44%) and math (33.33% to 44.44%) but stayed below state. Rankings have moved around: 27th percentile in 2023–2024, 41st percentile with 2 stars in 2024–2025, and 21st percentile with 1 star in 2025–2026. The district overall ranks 390 of 432 with 0 stars.
Attendance is a clear strength: chronic absenteeism was 2.8% in 2024–2025, well below the district's 10.8% and the state's 17.3%, despite 63.41% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch. The dropout rate was 3.5%, compared with 1.0% district and 1.1% state, though with only 41 students a few individuals can move that number. Resources look favorable — a 7.1 student-teacher ratio and $22,746 per-student spending — but they have not yet shown up as state-level proficiency in the latest year. Given the small enrollment, families should watch multi-year trends rather than single-year swings.
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