Summary:
Zip code 54241 in Two Rivers, Wisconsin contains exactly one middle school: Clarke Middle, which serves grades 5–8 and enrolls 397 students as part of the Two Rivers Public School District. Because it is the only middle school in the ZIP, there is no local comparison to make, so what follows is a detailed profile of that single school. One important pattern is that Clarke Middle's scores usually sit within a few points of its district's scores, meaning the local district itself trails the state by a wide margin.
On the 2025–2026 Forward Exam, Clarke Middle was below the state average in all 10 reported test areas. Its closest result to the state was Math grade 7 at 53.16%, only 2.51 points behind Wisconsin's 55.67%. The largest gaps were Math grade 5 (32.35% vs. the state's 51.81%), Social Studies grade 8 (47.44% vs. 64.63%), Science grade 8 (35.90% vs. 51.86%), and ELA grade 8 (39.74% vs. 54.38%). There were real bright spots: Math grade 8 climbed 18.06 points year over year, and Math grade 7 rose 15.23 points. Offsetting those gains were declines in Social Studies grade 8 (down 10.99 points), Science grade 8 (down 7.92 points), and ELA grade 6 (down 7.39 points). In 2024–2025, ELA grade 6 was the school's only above-state result, at 55.81% versus the state's 53.66%.
Non-academic data is more encouraging. The dropout rate is 0.0%, below the district's 0.8% and the state's 1.1%, and chronic absenteeism is 14.1%, better than Wisconsin's 17.3% though higher than the district's 10.6%. About 45.34% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — roughly 180 of 397 — and per-student spending is $14,625, with a low student-teacher ratio of 9.5. Clarke Middle ranked 468 of 643 schools in 2025–2026 (27th percentile, 1 star), up from the 21st percentile in 2023–2024, while the district ranks 394 of 432 (9th percentile, 0 stars).
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