Summary:
ZIP code 54949 contains exactly one middle school — Manawa Middle — which serves grades 6 through 8 with 112 students as part of the Manawa School District, so families in this small Wisconsin community have a single local option for the middle grades and no other middle school to compare against within the ZIP.
The school's clearest bright spot is 7th grade mathematics, where 73.91% of students scored proficient in 2025–2026, far above the state average of 55.67% — an advantage of more than 18 percentage points. Eighth grade math and science also edged slightly above state in 2024–2025, and the school reports a 0.0% dropout rate compared with 1.1% statewide, along with a favorable 12:1 student-teacher ratio. Its SchoolDigger rank has improved from 1 star in 2023–2024 to 2 stars in each of the past two years, although the 2025–2026 percentile slipped from 36 to 31.
Those strengths are uneven, though. English Language Arts falls below state in all three grades in 2025–2026, ranging from 40.00% in 6th grade to 47.83% in 7th and 42.22% in 8th, against state averages near 55%. Sixth grade math (40.00%) and 8th grade science (37.78%, down sharply from 55.17% the year before) also trail state, showing that the math strength is concentrated in one grade rather than consistent school-wide. Chronic absenteeism, at 17.3%, matches the state average but runs 7.0 points above the district's 10.3%, and the school's overall rank remains below the median at 443rd of 643.
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