Summary:
ZIP code 53955 in Columbia County, Wisconsin is home to a single middle school — Poynette Middle — which serves grades 5–8 with 271 students as part of the Poynette School District. Because there is only one middle school in this area, the most useful comparisons are between this school and its district and statewide averages, and by those measures it performs at a high level.
Poynette Middle has earned a 4-star rating in each of the last three reported years, ranking 147th of 643 schools (77th percentile) in 2025–26, 115th of 628 (82nd percentile) in 2024–25, and 131st of 641 (80th percentile) in 2023–24. The Poynette School District also holds 4 stars and ranks 96th of 432 districts, the 78th percentile. On the Forward Exam, proficiency is above the state average in nearly every subject and grade. Standouts in 2025–26 include 5th grade ELA at 75.68% (about 22 points above the state), 5th grade math at 70.27%, 6th grade math at 71.21%, and 8th grade science at 69.44% (roughly 18 points above the state). The one exception is 7th grade math, where proficiency of 55.56% is essentially tied with the state's 55.67%. Across the ten listed tests, the school averages about 67.9% proficiency versus about 55.0% for Wisconsin.
Attendance and dropout indicators are favorable: chronic absenteeism is 13.3%, below the state's 17.3% though slightly above the district's 11.9%, and the dropout rate is 0.0% against 1.1% statewide. Context matters too — enrollment is small at 271, the student-teacher ratio is 10.3:1, free/reduced lunch sits at 21.4%, and per-student spending is $16,507. One note of caution: 2025–26 results dipped slightly from 2024–25 overall, driven mainly by declines in 5th and 7th grade math and 8th grade social studies, but grade-level comparisons reflect different cohorts of students rather than the same children over time.
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