Summary
Tomah Middle is a grade 6–8 school in Tomah, WI, serving 663 students as part of the Tomah Area School District, which ranks in the 23rd percentile of Wisconsin districts. In 2025–2026, the school ranked 383 of 643 Wisconsin middle schools (40th percentile, 2 stars), up from 30th percentile in 2024–2025 and 25th in 2023–2024. That is meaningful progress from its low point, though the school still sits below the state median — while performing above its own district's overall percentile.
Academically, the strongest results are in 8th grade: math is nearly at the state average (53.10% vs 53.67%) and science is above it (52.86% vs 51.86%). The clearest weak spots are 6th grade ELA and math, which trail the state by 14.74 and 12.88 points, and 6th grade ELA is the only subject that declined year over year. Most other subjects improved. The school's effectiveness rankings for Hispanic, multiracial, special education, and low-income students have all risen over the past three years. Compared with the similarly sized Sparta Meadowview Middle, Tomah Middle scores higher in nearly every subject, including a wide science gap (52.86% vs 36.84%).
Chronic absenteeism is the biggest red flag: 24.2%, above Wisconsin's 17.3% and far above Royall Intermediate (9.0%), Sparta Meadowview Middle (6.4%), and Innovations STEM Academy (2.2%). Even so, Tomah Middle outperforms Sparta Meadowview despite that school spending more per student ($15,789 vs $13,964) and having much smaller classes. Innovations STEM Academy, which outscores Tomah in every subject, is far smaller (90 students) with lower poverty and higher per-student spending, so it is not a like-for-like comparison.
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