Summary:
The Lancaster Community School District in Wisconsin has one middle school, Lancaster Middle School, which serves grades 6-8. The school has seen a decline in its statewide ranking over the past three years, dropping from 238th out of 617 Wisconsin middle schools in 2021-2022 to 290th out of 641 in 2023-2024, despite the district as a whole being ranked 126th out of 428 districts in the state and rated 4 stars out of 5 by SchoolDigger.
Lancaster Middle School maintains a 3-star rating out of 5 from SchoolDigger, indicating average performance compared to other middle schools in the state. The school's proficiency rates in English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics are generally higher than the state averages, particularly in 6th grade, but decline in the higher grade levels, with 7th and 8th-grade students performing below the state averages in both subjects. In contrast, 8th-grade students at Lancaster Middle School perform better than the state average in Social Studies and Science.
The school has a significant population of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, with 36.64% of students qualifying for this program in the 2022-2023 school year. The school's spending per student for the 2020-2021 school year was $11,419, which is higher than the state average, and the student-teacher ratio is 16:1, which is a relatively low ratio compared to the state average. However, the school's chronic absenteeism rate for the 2022-2023 school year was 12.4%, which is higher than the state's average.
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