Plum City Middle School

Plum City Middle School is a small public school serving grades 6–8 with 51 students in the village of Plum City in western Wisconsin, part of the Plum City School District.

In 2025–26, the school ranked 185th of 643 Wisconsin middle schools — 71st percentile, 4 stars — far above its district's 273rd of 432 districts (37th percentile, 2 stars), a gap of roughly 34 percentile points. Across the eight reported tests, average proficiency was 64.2%, above the state's 55.5% and Ellsworth Middle's 60.0%, but behind Spring Valley Middle (72.8%) and Elmwood Middle (74.5%). Standouts include 8th-grade science at 69.23% (state: 51.86%) and 6th-grade math at 66.67% (state: 53.6%). The clearest soft spot is 7th-grade math at 52.38%, below the state's 55.67% and well behind Spring Valley and Elmwood. Plum City was above the state on 7 of 8 reported tests, and its average proficiency climbed about 14.3 points over the prior year — though with only 51 students these are different cohorts, so year-to-year swings deserve caution.

Subgroup rankings are strong for female, special education, and low-income students (82nd, 83rd, and 76th percentiles), while boys rank at the 41st percentile. Plum City has the highest free/reduced-lunch rate (47.06%) and by far the lowest per-student spending ($8,184) among nearby schools — Ellsworth spends $17,357, Elmwood $14,135, and Spring Valley $13,454 — yet still outperforms the state and Ellsworth. Chronic absenteeism (9.8%) is higher than Ellsworth, Spring Valley, and Elmwood, but well below the state's 17.3%; dropout was 0.0%.