Summary:
ZIP code 53525 contains just one middle school: Clinton Junior High, a grades 7–8 school with 132 students in Clinton, Wisconsin, operating within the Clinton Community School District. Because there is only one middle school here, parents have a single option, and the picture is a mixed one — strong attendance plus standout social studies and science results and improving math, but a sharp decline in 8th grade reading and writing.
Attendance is the school’s clearest strength. Chronic absenteeism is 7.0%, below the district’s 8.1% and less than half of Wisconsin’s 17.3%. In social studies, 74.14% of 8th graders scored proficient — 9.51 points above the state and up 6.49 points from the prior year. Science 8 held at 58.62%, still 6.76 points above Wisconsin despite a decline from 63.24%. Math is trending in the right direction: 7th grade rose 6.11 points to 51.72% and 8th grade rose 2.69 points to 48.28%, though both remain below the state average.
The main concern is 8th grade English language arts, where proficiency fell from 55.88% to 39.66% — a 16.22-point drop and 14.72 points below the state. That result likely weighed on the school’s state ranking, which slipped from 293 of 628 (53rd percentile, 3 stars) in 2024–25 to 342 of 643 (47th percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–26. Even so, the middle school’s standing sits above the district’s overall rank of 344 of 432 (20th percentile, 1 star), though that district figure covers all grade levels. With only about 60–70 students per grade, a single student can shift a proficiency rate by roughly 1.5 points, so the ELA 8 drop is worth monitoring rather than treating as permanent.
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