Summary:
ZIP code 54446 — the Loyal, Wisconsin area — is served by exactly one middle school: Loyal Middle School, which serves grades 6 through 8 with 108 students and belongs to the Loyal School District. Because this is the only middle school in the area, there is no local peer to compare it against — the most useful comparisons are between this school and its district and the state of Wisconsin.
The school's standout results are in attendance and resources rather than test scores. Its chronic absenteeism rate of 4.8% is less than half the district's 9.1% and roughly a quarter of the state's 17.3%, and its dropout rate is 0.0%. Classes are small, with a 12:1 student-teacher ratio, and per-student spending is $17,637, with 42.59% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch. Academically, its closest-to-par results in 2025-26 were 8th grade Social Studies at 62.07% and 6th grade ELA at 52.00%.
The main concern is direction of travel. The school's statewide rank percentile slipped from 52 to 31 to 26 over three years, and its star rating dropped from 3 stars to 1 star. In 2025-26, proficiency was below the state average in all eight tested subjects — a shift from the prior year, when Math 6, Social Studies 8, and Science 8 were each above state. Seventh grade ELA stood at 26.47% against a state rate of 55.33%, while math and 8th grade science fell sharply year over year. One important caveat: with roughly 30 students per grade, a single student can shift a grade-level rate by about 3 points, so the direction of the trend matters more than the exact size of any single-year change.
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