Summary:
ZIP code 54665 is home to one middle school, Viroqua Middle, which serves grades 5–8 with 253 students as part of the Viroqua Area School District in southwestern Wisconsin. Because it is the only middle school in the area, families here have no local alternative at the middle-grade level.
The school's brightest spot is 7th grade math, where 70.97% of students tested proficient in 2025-2026, 15.30 points above the state and up 10.26 points from the prior year, though the district's 7th grade math rate is higher at 74.65%. Eighth graders also beat the state in social studies (67.80%, up 3.17 points) and science (57.63%, up 5.77 points). Across all listed tests, the school outperformed the state in 8 of 10 and posted strong engagement numbers: chronic absenteeism of 12.0%, below both the district (12.5%) and the state (17.3%), and a reported 0.0% dropout rate. Overall, students here score above the state average but below their own district average in nearly every subject except 8th grade math.
There are real warning signs, too. Eighth grade ELA fell 19.76 points to 45.76% proficient, 8.62 points below the state, while 8th grade math dropped 14.73 points to 54.24%. Fifth grade math has been a consistent weakness, below the state in both years (41.94% vs. 51.81% in 2025-2026). The school's state rank slipped from the 75th percentile in 2023-2024 to the 60th percentile in 2025-2026, moving from 4 stars to 3 stars; the district, by contrast, ranks 73 of 432 (83rd percentile, 4 stars). With $15,055 spent per student, a 13.3 student-teacher ratio, and 37.94% of students eligible for free/reduced lunch, the school generally performs above the state while trailing its own high-performing district.
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