Summary:
ZIP code 53965 is home to a single middle school — Wisconsin Dells Middle School — which serves grades 6–8 with 374 students at 520 Race St in Wisconsin Dells, part of the Wisconsin Dells School District. Because there is only one middle school here, the most useful comparisons are the school against its own district and against Wisconsin averages, and its own performance from year to year.
The school's strongest results come in 8th grade. In 2025–2026, 8th-grade math proficiency was 74.56%, more than 20 points above the state's 53.67%, and 8th-grade English Language Arts hit 64.91% against a state figure of 54.38%. Eighth graders also beat the state in social studies (69.91% vs. 64.63%) and science (56.64% vs. 51.86%), with science jumping more than 10 points in a single year. The school's state rank has climbed steadily, from the 53rd percentile in 2023–2024 to the 60th and then the 62nd percentile, holding 3 stars — notably stronger than the district's overall 42nd percentile and 2 stars. Dropout is 0.0%, below both the district (0.7%) and the state (1.1%), and chronic absenteeism of 15.3% is better than Wisconsin's 17.3%.
The clearest concern is 6th-grade math, where proficiency fell to 43.08% — 10.52 points below the state's 53.60% and down 7.71 points from the prior year. Sixth-grade ELA also slipped from 58.54% to 53.49%, moving from above the state average to 1.46 points below it. Seventh-grade ELA and math both declined but stayed above state averages, and the school still outperforms the state in six of eight tested areas despite serving a majority low-income population (58.29% free/reduced lunch), spending $15,148 per student with a 14.7 student-teacher ratio. Absenteeism, while better than the state, runs higher than the district's 11.4%.
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