Summary:
ZIP code 54624 is home to just one middle school: De Soto Middle, a grades 6–8 school in the small village of De Soto, Wisconsin, with 101 students. It belongs to the De Soto Area School District, which ranks 297th of 432 districts (31st percentile, 2 stars). About 45.54% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending is $13,384, and the student-teacher ratio is 13.4.
The school itself is on a clear upswing. Its state ranking improved from 382nd of 641 (40th percentile, 2 stars) in 2023–2024 to 305th of 628 (51st percentile, 3 stars) and then 236th of 643 (63rd percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026 — moving from the bottom half to the top third of ranked schools. Chronic absenteeism is a standout at 4.9%, well below the district's 9.9% and the state's 17.3%. In 2025–2026 the school beat state averages in 6th-grade math (70.00% vs 53.60%), 8th-grade science (67.65% vs 51.86%), 6th-grade ELA (66.67% vs 54.95%), 8th-grade ELA, 7th-grade math, and matched the state closely in 8th-grade social studies (64.71% vs 64.63%).
Results are uneven, though. Eighth-grade math dropped sharply from 61.29% to 44.12%, falling from 8.23 points above the state to 9.55 points below. Seventh-grade ELA slipped to 46.43% against a state average of 55.33%. Social studies declined 6.26 points. On the plus side, 6th-grade math rose 23.57 points, 8th-grade science 16.04 points, and 6th-grade ELA 13.10 points. With only about 30–34 students per grade, a few students can shift these percentages noticeably, so single-year swings may reflect cohort differences rather than lasting trends.
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