Summary:
ZIP code 54603 in La Crosse, Wisconsin is served by two middle schools, both covering grades 6–8 and both operating within the La Crosse School District: Logan Middle, with 424 students, and School of Technology and Arts II, a much smaller program of 39 students. The two list the same street address (1450 Avon St), so the smaller school appears to be housed on the Logan campus rather than in a separate building. Together they enroll 463 middle-schoolers, and Logan accounts for more than nine in ten of them.
Despite the shared location and district, the two schools look very different on state rankings. School of Technology and Arts II ranks 170th of 643 middle schools statewide (4 stars) and has risen from the 55th to the 74th percentile over three years, while Logan Middle ranks 374th of 643 (2 stars) and sits near the middle. On 2025-2026 Forward Exam results, SOTA II averaged about 65% proficient across reported subjects, above the state's roughly 55% and clearly above Logan's roughly 51%. Logan serves more low-income students (53.3% vs. 30.8% free/reduced-lunch eligible) and spends nearly twice as much per student ($21,747 vs. $11,092). Chronic absenteeism is above state at both, 22.0% at Logan and 20.0% at SOTA II.
Both schools are comparatively strong in 8th-grade Social Studies and Science, where every result beat district and state averages. The shared soft spot is math: Logan's 6th-grade math and ELA scores fell well below state, and 7th-grade math was SOTA II's only below-state result and the one measure where Logan outperformed it. Logan's 8th graders improved sharply in every subject. Because SOTA II's cohorts are only about 10–15 test-takers, treat its individual yearly results as volatile and its multi-year trend as the more reliable signal.
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