Summary:
ZIP code 54022 in River Falls, Wisconsin has exactly one middle school — Meyer Middle — which serves grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 725 students as part of the River Falls School District. Because there is only one middle school in the area, there are no local head-to-head comparisons to make; the useful benchmarks are the district and the state of Wisconsin. The district itself ranks 109 of 432 in Wisconsin (75th percentile, 4 stars), and the school holds a 2025–2026 rank of 130 of 643 schools, placing it in the 80th percentile with 4 stars.
Academically, Meyer Middle performed above the Wisconsin state proficiency rate in every reported grade and subject in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. Math and 8th grade social studies are relative strengths: in 2025–2026, math proficiency was 68.04% in 6th grade, 69.74% in 7th grade, and 68.84% in 8th grade, while social studies 8th grade was the highest absolute score at 77.10%, against 64.63% statewide. The narrower margins were in English language arts, though still above state, ranging from +6.09 points in 8th grade to +18.57 points in 6th grade. Looking year over year, 6th grade improved considerably (ELA +15.74 points, math +6.71), while 8th grade declined in every tested subject, including ELA (−11.47) and science (−9.76). These are grade-level comparisons rather than the same students, so they reflect cohort shifts, not individual growth.
Two trends are worth watching. First, the school's rank has moved from 63 of 641 (90th percentile, 5 stars) in 2023–2024 to 130 of 643 (80th percentile, 4 stars) in 2025–2026 — still strong, but softening. Second, chronic absenteeism is 8.4%, far below the state's 17.3% but above the district's 5.8%, and the dropout rate is 0.0%, below the district's 0.3% and the state's 1.1%. Context figures are 18.07% free/reduced lunch, $13,042 per-student spending, and a 14.7:1 student-teacher ratio.
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