Summary:
ZIP code 53520 contains only one middle school — Brodhead Middle — which serves grades 5–8 with 202 students enrolled in the Brodhead School District, so families in this area have a single public middle school option rather than a set of schools to compare against one another.
Eighth grade science and social studies are the clearest strengths. Science proficiency is 63.93% versus 51.86% statewide, and social studies is 73.77% versus 64.63%. Fifth grade also performs above state in both ELA (58.46% vs. 53.63%) and math (60.00% vs. 51.81%). Sixth grade improved sharply over the prior year: ELA rose from 39.06% to 54.79%, now essentially at the state average, while math climbed from 39.06% to 49.32% but still trails the state by 4.28 points. The biggest concern is seventh grade, where ELA and math both sit at 33.85%, roughly 21–22 points below statewide rates, and ELA fell 25.47 points from last year. Eighth grade math is slightly above state (55.00%), while eighth grade ELA is 4.38 points below it.
The school's state ranking slipped from 3 stars and the 52nd percentile in 2023–2024 to 2 stars and the 44th percentile in each of the last two years, though it still outranks its district, which sits at the 22nd percentile with 1 star. Chronic absenteeism is 17.2%, essentially matching the state's 17.3% but above the district's 14.6%. The reported dropout rate is 2.1% versus 0.6% district and 1.1% state, though dropout is largely a high-school measure and has limited meaning for a grades 5–8 school. Per-student spending is $17,163, and the student-teacher ratio is 10.6. With roughly 50 students per grade, small cohort changes can move proficiency percentages by several points from year to year.
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