Summary:
ZIP code 53968, in the small rural community of Wonewoc, Wisconsin, is served by a single middle-level school — Wonewoc-Center Junior High — which serves grades 6 through 8 with 68 students and belongs to the Wonewoc-Union Center School District. Because it is the only middle school in the area, its results are also the district's middle-grade results.
Reading is this school's clearest strength. English language arts beat the state average in every grade-level comparison across both years of testing, and 8th grade ELA reached 76.19% proficient, 21.8 points above the state. Eighth grade social studies posted 80.95%, the highest figure in the entire record and 16.3 points above the state, while science held roughly even with the state. Attendance is also a bright spot: chronic absenteeism was 11.9%, better than both the district (16.1%) and the state (17.3%). Over three years the school climbed from 413th of 641 schools (2 stars) to 246th of 643 (62nd percentile, 3 stars), and its overall proficiency average moved from below the state to about four points above it.
Math is the persistent weakness. Eighth grade math was 38.10% proficient, 15.6 points below the state, and math trailed the state in five of six grade-level comparisons, though it did improve substantially year over year, rising from 37.9% to 47.1%. Science slipped as well, from 60.87% to 52.38%. Notably, the district itself is rated 1 star / 28th percentile — far below the school's own 3-star rating — which suggests the middle grades are not what is holding the district back. With small class sizes, a student-teacher ratio of 8.5, and $14,163 spent per student, individual students can move these percentages by several points, so year-over-year changes are best read as directional signals from a small school rather than precise measurements.
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