Summary
Weston Junior High School in Cazenovia, WI is a small public middle school serving grades 7 and 8 with just 41 students, part of the Weston School District. That district ranks 326 of 432 Wisconsin districts (25th percentile, 1 star), but the school itself has recently performed better than that context suggests: in 2025–2026 it ranked 319 of 643 middle schools statewide (50th percentile, 3 stars), up from 36th percentile in 2024–2025 and 28th percentile in 2023–2024. Earlier years were mostly in the bottom quarter, so the recent rise is encouraging but follows a volatile pattern.
Weston's clearest academic strengths are in 8th grade. In 2025–2026, 8th-grade math proficiency was 64.29% (state: 53.67%), above Wonewoc-Center Junior High, Ithaca Middle, and Webb Middle, and 8th-grade social studies was 85.71% (state: 64.63%), the highest among the 8th-grade comparisons. The weak spots are English language arts and science. ELA proficiency was 41.67% in 7th grade and 42.86% in 8th, both below the state. Science 8 was 50.00%, slightly below the state's 51.86% and below nearby 8th-grade schools, which ranged from 52.38% to 66.67%. Royall Intermediate serves grades 4–6, so it isn't a same-grade comparison.
Chronic absenteeism is the most immediate concern: 30.8% in 2024–2025, higher than the state (17.3%), the district (19.6%), and every nearby school listed, and a sharp jump from 2.5% the year before. Weston also spends the most per student of the comparison group at $17,766, though its results aren't uniformly higher than nearby schools. Subgroup results are uneven: low-income students ranked at the 81st percentile (4 stars) in 2025–2026 and male students at the 72nd percentile (4 stars) in 2024–2025, while female students ranked at the 19th percentile (1 star) that same year. With only 41 students, a single student can shift a grade-level rate by about 5 percentage points, so multi-year trends matter more than any one year.
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