Summary:
ZIP code 53536 is home to a single middle school: J C McKenna Middle in Evansville, Wisconsin, which serves grades 6–8 with 362 students as part of the Evansville Community School District. Because there are no other middle schools in the ZIP code, the most useful benchmarks are the school versus its district and Wisconsin state averages, along with how its own results have changed year over year.
J C McKenna currently ranks 247th out of 643 schools statewide — the 62nd percentile with 3 stars — up from 260th and the 59th percentile the prior year, though still below its 2023–24 mark of 202nd and the 68th percentile. In 2025–26, the school exceeded the state in 6 of 8 tested subject-grade areas. Math 7 was the standout at 68.29% proficient versus 55.67% statewide, about 12.62 points above; Math 6 came in at 62.39% against 53.60% state; Social Studies 8 reached 70.41% versus 64.63%; and ELA 7 hit 59.68% versus 55.33%.
The clearest area to watch is 8th grade. ELA 8 fell from 63.64% to 52.04%, a decline of 11.60 points, and now sits 2.34 points below state, while Math 8 slipped from 52.89% to 48.98%, 4.69 points below state. Science 8, by contrast, improved from 47.11% to 53.06%, moving from below state to above it. Other 2024–25 metrics look favorable: chronic absenteeism of 15.5% is below the state's 17.3%, the dropout rate of 0.8% is under the state's 1.1%, free/reduced lunch is 17.96%, per-student spending is $14,940, and the student-teacher ratio is 13.7:1.
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