Summary:
The 54403 zip code in Wisconsin is home to a single middle school, Horace Mann Middle, which serves students in grades 6-8. The school's performance has fluctuated in recent years, with its statewide ranking ranging from 298 out of 628 schools in 2024-2025 to 353 out of 641 schools in 2023-2024.
Horace Mann Middle's academic outcomes on the Forward Exam, a standardized test in Wisconsin, have been mixed. In 2024-2025, the school's proficiency rates in English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics were generally on par with or slightly below the Wausau School District and Wisconsin state averages. However, in 2023-2024, the school's ELA proficiency rates were higher than the district and state, while its Mathematics proficiency rates were lower. The school's dropout rate for 2023-2024 was a positive 1.3%, but its chronic absenteeism rate for the same year was relatively high at 17.7%.
Horace Mann Middle serves a significant population of economically disadvantaged students, with a free and reduced-price lunch rate of 47.43% for the 2023-2024 school year. The school's student-teacher ratio for 2023-2024 was 13.1, slightly lower than the national average, and its per-student spending for the 2020-2021 school year was $13,520, higher than the national average of around $12,000 per student. These factors suggest that the district is allocating resources to support the school, but the academic outcomes may not yet fully reflect the investment.
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