Summary:
ZIP code 54208 is home to a single public middle school: Denmark Middle, part of the Denmark School District. It serves grades 6–8 with 333 students, a free/reduced lunch rate of 22.52%, per-student spending of $12,992, and a 14:1 student-teacher ratio. Because it is the only middle school in the area, there are no local peers to compare against — so the useful benchmarks are the district and Wisconsin state averages, along with the school's own history. In 2025–2026 it ranked 216 of 643 middle schools statewide (66th percentile, 3 stars), up from 61st percentile a year earlier but below its 2023–2024 result of 73rd percentile and 4 stars.
Denmark Middle's clearest strength is mathematics, where it beat the state at every grade level in both reported years. In 2025–2026, 8th-grade math proficiency was 71.2%, which is 17.53 points above the state and up 9.3 points from the prior year. The same 8th-grade class also posted 71.2% in social studies (up 10.25 points) and 60.8% in science (up 8.42 points), all above state averages. Attendance is another standout: chronic absenteeism was just 4.5%, in line with the district's 4.3% but far below Wisconsin's 17.3%, and the dropout rate was 0.0% versus 1.1% statewide.
The main academic concern is 7th-grade English Language Arts, where proficiency was 48.39% — 6.94 points below the state, slightly below the district, and down 5.71 points from 54.1% the year before. Math also slipped in grades 6 and 7 (down 6.83 and 8.33 points) though both remained above state averages. Sixth-grade ELA improved to 58.2% and 8th-grade ELA held at 56.8%, both above the state. Overall, the school's 2025–2026 ELA average of about 54.46% sat just under the state's 54.89%. District averages closely track the school's own scores, which makes sense given the school's size relative to the district.
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