Summary:
ZIP code 54832 in Drummond, Wisconsin contains just one middle school: Drummond Junior High, a grades 7–8 building with 53 students in the Drummond Area School District. Because it is the only middle school in the area, there is no local peer to compare it against — the meaningful comparisons are against the district, the state, and the school's own prior years. The school reports test results for 2024‑25 and 2025‑26, three years of state ranking history, and one year each of attendance, dropout, free/reduced-price lunch, spending, and staffing data.
The clearest strengths are attendance and the newest seventh graders. Chronic absenteeism is 9.4%, well below the district's 15.4% and the state's 17.3%. In 2025‑26, seventh graders beat the state in both tested subjects — ELA 56.25% vs. 55.33%, and math 58.82% vs. 55.67%. The one group of students who can be followed from year to year (2024‑25 seventh graders moving into eighth grade) improved in math from 39.13% to 50.00%, cutting their gap to the state from 16.4 points to 3.7. Resources are ample: $19,713 per pupil and a 9:1 student-teacher ratio, and about two in five students (39.62%) qualify for free/reduced-price lunch.
The most persistent weakness is eighth-grade ELA at 30.77%, which is 23.61 points below the state's 54.38% and did not improve for the cohort that can be tracked. Eighth-grade social studies (46.15%, 18.48 points below state) and science (42.31%, 9.55 points below) also lag. The school's state rank fell to 457 of 643 (29th percentile, 1 star) in 2025‑26 after two years near the 54th–55th percentile with 3 stars, placing it below its own district's 52nd percentile. Much of that swing reflects an unusually strong 2024‑25 eighth-grade class leaving, not a uniform decline — and with so few students per grade, a single student can shift a reported rate by roughly 3–8 percentage points. The next reporting cycle will be far more informative than any single figure here.
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