New Auburn Middle

New Auburn Middle is a very small public middle school serving grades 6–8 in the small Wisconsin community of New Auburn, with just 49 students, and it belongs to the New Auburn School District. The district ranks 354th of 432 Wisconsin districts — 18th percentile, 1 star — while the school has generally landed in the lower-middle portion of Wisconsin middle schools, ranking 438th of 643 (32nd percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–2026. Nearby middle schools are far larger: Bloomer Middle enrolls 350 students, Cameron Middle 319, and Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle 204.

Where New Auburn Middle stands out is resources. It spends $19,180 per student — more than any nearby school ($12,327–$16,215) — and its student-teacher ratio of 6.9 is roughly half that of Cameron Middle, Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle, and Bloomer Middle. Chronic absenteeism is 11.8%, below the state's 17.3% and below Bloomer and Chetek-Weyerhaeuser, though above Cameron's 5.7%. One figure to treat carefully: the reported free/reduced lunch rate fell from about 41–44% in 2022–23 and 2023–24 to 6.12% in 2024–25, a shift large enough that it may reflect a reporting or eligibility change rather than purely a demographic one.

Academically, results are mixed. Math is the clearest weakness — proficiency was 36.84% in 6th grade, 28.57% in 7th, and 20.00% in 8th, below the state and below every nearby school in those grades. Eighth grade is a bright spot: 70% in ELA and 80% in both science and social studies, outperforming the state and all three nearby schools. By contrast, 6th and 7th grade ELA (31.58% and 42.86%) lag the state. Subgroup results swing widely — low-income students sat at the 76th–88th percentile in 2023–24 and 2024–25 but fell to the 15th in 2025–26 — which is expected with only 49 students. The biggest things to watch are math, lower-grade reading and math, and whether those swings settle.