Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 53227

ZIP code 53227 has one public middle school, Frank Lloyd Wright Intermediate, serving grades 6–8 in West Allis as part of the West Allis-West Milwaukee School District; it enrolls 902 students, so there are no other local middle schools to compare it with directly. Families should instead compare it with its district and the state, and look at year-over-year changes.

Academically, the school generally outperforms its district on Forward Exam proficiency. In 2024–25, it exceeded the district in every listed subject and grade; in 2025–26, it did so everywhere except 8th grade ELA, where it was slightly below district (41.8 vs. 42.16). Math is its strongest area relative to the district: 2025–26 gaps were +7.09 points in 6th grade, +5.62 in 7th, and +2.43 in 8th. Statewide, however, it has 1 star, a rank percentile in the 25–28 range, and all 2025–26 Forward Exam scores shown are below the state average. Math is the weakest relative-to-state subject—12.65 to 15.54 points below state in 2025–26—while social studies dropped from 59.81% proficient in 2024–25 (2.70 points below state) to 49.42% in 2025–26 (15.21 points below state). Science stayed roughly flat at 39.88% and 39.30%, about 10–13 points below state, and ELA was mixed, with 8th grade in 2025–26 the only area below the district and 12.58 points below state.

Attendance is a genuine positive: chronic absenteeism was 14.9% at the school in 2024–25, versus 19.5% in the district and 17.3% statewide, and the dropout rate was 1.7%, below the district’s 3.1% but above the state’s 1.1%. The school serves 902 students with a 12.8:1 student-teacher ratio and $14,904 per-student spending; 61.86% qualified for free/reduced lunch. Its district is ranked 400 of 432, at the 7th percentile with 0 stars, while the school has been at the 25th–28th percentile with 1 star—a relative bright spot in a very low-ranked district. Year over year, math improved in all three grades, ELA was mixed, social studies declined sharply, and science was essentially unchanged; the data alone does not explain the causes behind these results.