Summary:
ZIP code 53531 has just one middle school: Deerfield Middle, a grades 7–8 school with 114 students in the Deerfield area, part of Deerfield Community School District. Because it is the only middle school in the ZIP code, there are no local peers to compare it against, so all comparisons below are against district and state averages.
Test results tell two very different stories by grade. Seventh grade is the bright spot: 7th-grade math proficiency was 72.55% in 2025–2026 and 70.69% in 2024–2025, both well above the state (55.67% and 55.53%). Seventh-grade ELA made a dramatic jump, from 37.93% to 68.63%, a 30.70-point gain that moved it from far below to above the state's 55.33%. Eighth grade moved the opposite way: every subject fell below state in 2025–2026 — ELA at 45.00% (state 54.38%), math at 50.00% (53.67%), social studies at 58.33% (64.63%), and science at 41.67% (51.86%). The year-over-year declines were steep, especially in science (-24.33 points), ELA (-23.00), and math (-20.00). Averaged across all six tests, the school went from roughly +8.65 points above state to about even with it.
Non-test measures are mostly encouraging. The dropout rate was 0.0%, matching the district and below the state's 1.1%. Chronic absenteeism was 14.0%, better than the state's 17.3% but higher than the district's 11.2%. The school reports 24.56% free/reduced lunch participation, $13,209 per-student spending, and an 11:1 student-teacher ratio. Its state rank slipped from the 67th percentile and 3 stars in 2024–2025 to the 47th percentile and 2 stars in 2025–2026. With only about 50–60 students per grade, year-to-year swings can be large, so these results are best read as small-cohort variation rather than a fixed trend.
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