Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 54140

ZIP code 54140 is home to two middle-level schools, both part of the Little Chute Area School District and both located at 1402 Freedom Rd in Little Chute, Wisconsin: Little Chute Intermediate, which serves grades 5–6 with 215 students, and Little Chute Middle, which serves grades 7–8 with 214 students. Together they enroll about 429 students, and the district ranks 83rd of 432 Wisconsin districts, placing it at the 81st percentile with 4 stars.

Both schools generally outperform the state on current-year tests, but their strengths differ. Little Chute Intermediate shines in English Language Arts, with 5th-grade ELA at 64.91% and 6th-grade ELA at 66.04% — each roughly 11 points above the state. Its watch point is 5th-grade math at 48.25%, which falls below both the district and the state and dropped 8.76 points from the prior year. Little Chute Middle posts its strongest results in 8th grade: social studies 81.91%, ELA 71.28%, math 69.15%, and science 67.02%, all well above state averages. Its 7th-grade ELA and math, however, fell sharply from 2024–2025.

Operationally, both schools keep chronic absenteeism low — 11.2% at Intermediate and 12.6% at Middle, both below the state's 17.3% — and serve similar free/reduced-lunch populations, near 38%. Little Chute Middle spends more per student ($13,460 vs. $11,773) and has a lower student-teacher ratio (13.8 vs. 15.3), and it reports a 0.0% dropout rate. It also holds 4 stars in each of the past three years, though its rank percentile slipped from 89 to 81 between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026.