Summary:
ZIP code 54742 is served by a single middle school: Fall Creek Middle, a grades 5–8 school with 265 students in Fall Creek, Wisconsin, operating within the Fall Creek School District. Because it is the only middle school in this area, there is no neighboring school to compare it against — the meaningful benchmarks are its own year-over-year trends and Wisconsin state averages.
Academically, the school performs well above the state in most tested areas. Its strongest grade band is 8th grade: in 2025–2026, 8th grade math reached 85.33% proficient versus 53.67% statewide, 8th grade English Language Arts hit 73.33% versus 54.38%, social studies came in at 76.00% versus 64.63%, and science at 58.67% versus 51.86%. The clearest weakness is 5th grade math, which sits below the state in both reported years (36.71% versus 51.81% in 2025–2026, and 38.10% versus 52.58% the prior year). Momentum is mixed elsewhere: 6th grade math jumped from 52.24% to 66.67%, while 7th grade math slipped from 67.14% to 58.46% but remains above the state, and 8th grade science dipped from 62.07% to 58.67% while staying above state.
The school’s state ranking has risen three years running — from 182nd to 158th to 124th — while holding a 4-star rating and climbing from the 72nd to the 81st percentile. Attendance and dropout indicators are favorable: chronic absenteeism is 8.5%, roughly half the state’s 17.3%, and the dropout rate is 0.7% versus 1.1% statewide. Context figures show 27.55% free/reduced lunch, $11,995 per-student spending, and a 14.1 student-teacher ratio, though the data set offers no state benchmarks for these. Overall, this is a strong, improving school with 5th grade math as the main area to watch.
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