Summary
Templeton Middle is the only grades 7–8 school in the Hamilton School District, serving 766 students in Sussex, Wisconsin, a Waukesha County community northwest of Milwaukee. Its feeder, Silver Spring Intermediate (grades 5–6, 758 students), sits a quarter mile away, so the two buildings form a two-stage middle-grades pipeline of roughly 1,520 students. The school's defining credential is consistency: across the ten school years on record, Templeton has earned five stars every single year, ranking between the 94th and 98th percentile among roughly 570–640 ranked Wisconsin middle schools. Even its 2025-26 rank of 38th of 643 — the lowest of the decade — is still top-6% statewide.
On the 2025-26 Forward Exam, Templeton students far outpaced the state. Seventh-grade math was the standout at 83.43% proficient (state: 55.67%), and 8th-grade social studies at 85.85% (state: 64.63%). ELA was 79.56% in 7th grade and 73.84% in 8th, with 8th-grade math at 77.02%. Science, at 67.56%, is the relative weak link — the school's smallest margin over the state (+15.7 points), trailing nearby Merton Intermediate (81.61%) and North Shore Middle (76.85%). Among eleven comparison middle schools, Templeton sits in the strong tier alongside Merton, North Shore, Pilgrim Park Middle, and Wisconsin Hills Middle, well ahead of North Middle, Butler Middle, Whitman Middle, and Horning Middle.
Chronic absenteeism fell to 6.2% in 2024-25 from 10.7% four years earlier — well below the state's 17.3%, though slightly above the district's 5.9%, because Silver Spring Intermediate posts an even lower 3.2%. Notably, Templeton's results don't come from high spending: its $14,814 per student ranks fourth among peers, while two of the top scorers spend less. One area to watch: the low-income subgroup ranking fell from the 95th percentile to the 65th in a single year, and 8th-grade scores softened while 7th-grade math hit a four-year high.
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