Summary:
ZIP code 53212 on Milwaukee's near north side is served by a single middle school, King International Baccalaureate Middle, which enrolls 159 students in grades 6–8 at 121 E Hadley St and belongs to Milwaukee School District. Because there is only one middle school in this ZIP, there is no local comparison to make; the meaningful comparison is against the district and the state.
On the Forward Exam, the school's proficiency rates sit far below both benchmarks. Across eight grade-and-subject measures in 2025‑26, the school averaged about 6.7% proficient, versus roughly 26.3% for the district and 55.5% for the state. Several results were the lowest possible: mathematics at grades 7 and 8 both came in at 0%, and grade 8 math also hit 0% the prior year, as did grade 8 science and social studies. Statewide, the school ranked 626th of 643 middle schools (3rd percentile) in 2025‑26, with 0 stars in each of the last three years. Class sizes and funding do not appear to be the constraint: per-student spending is $28,987 and the student-teacher ratio is 10.2:1, both unusually favorable, while 91.19% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
The most striking number is chronic absenteeism: 70.5% of students, about 1.5 times the district rate (46.2%) and more than four times the state rate (17.3%). That is a larger deviation than any test-score gap and is likely tied to the low proficiency results. The one clear bright spot is 7th-grade English Language Arts, where 28.1% of students were proficient — essentially matching the district's 28.5% and up sharply from 5.3% the year before. Because grades hold roughly 50 students each, small changes in how many students test proficient can move these percentages by several points, so one year of improvement should be watched rather than assumed to be a trend.
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