Summary:
Zip code 54406 is home to exactly one middle school: Amherst Middle, a public school serving grades 5–8 with 257 students in the Tomorrow River School District in Amherst, Wisconsin. Because there is only one middle school here, the most useful comparisons are the school's own trend over time and its results against district and state averages. Amherst Middle has earned a four-star rating in each of the last three reported years: 177 of 643 schools (72nd percentile) in 2025–2026, 189 of 628 (70th) in 2024–2025, and 136 of 641 (79th) in 2023–2024. The district overall is rated three stars at the 53rd percentile, so the middle school performs above its district's overall position.
Academically, Amherst Middle exceeded the state average in 9 of 10 reported Forward Exam subject and grade rows in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. Math in grades 5 and 6 is the standout: 5th-grade math reached 80.33% proficiency in 2025–2026, 28.52 points above the state, while 6th-grade math hit 71.21%. English language arts improved in every grade, with 7th-grade ELA at 71.43% — 16.10 points above the state. Eighth-grade science (63.64%) and social studies (65.45%) also topped state averages. The clear exception is 8th-grade math, which fell from 68.75% to 49.09% and landed below both the district (52.86%) and the state (53.67%).
Beyond test scores, engagement measures are strong: chronic absenteeism is 7.5%, below the district's 9.3% and less than half the state's 17.3%, while the dropout rate is 0.8%, below the state's 1.1%. About 28.02% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending is $13,605, and the student-teacher ratio is 11.2 to 1. With roughly 64 students per grade, swings such as the 8th-grade math decline may reflect one cohort rather than a school-wide trend.
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