De Forest Middle

Summary:

De Forest Middle is a public middle school serving grades 7-8 in the De Forest Area School District, with 561 students. The school has consistently ranked in the top half of Wisconsin middle schools over the past decade, with a current ranking of 194 out of 641 schools.

De Forest Middle is a strong-performing school, consistently outperforming the state average in academic proficiency across various subjects and grade levels. The school's Math performance is particularly impressive, with 7th and 8th-grade proficiency rates exceeding 60%, significantly higher than the state averages. The school also excels in supporting certain student subgroups, such as African American and English Language Learner students, who perform exceptionally well compared to their peers statewide. However, the school's performance for Multi-racial students and students with Low Socioeconomic Status is relatively weaker.

Compared to nearby schools, Prairie View Middle and Central Heights Middle in the Sun Prairie Area School District have lower academic performance and higher rates of chronic absenteeism than De Forest Middle. In contrast, Poynette Middle in the Poynette School District has consistently higher rankings and star ratings than De Forest Middle, suggesting potential areas for improvement.


Detail:

Public 7-8

 404 Yorktown Rd
       De Forest, WI  53532-1600


(608) 842-6000

District: De Forest Area School District

SchoolDigger Rank:
194th of 641 Wisconsin Middle Schools

Per Pupil Expenditures:  $11,673 Help


Students who attend De Forest Middle usually attend:

High:    De Forest High

Feeder schools for De Forest Middle:

Elementary:    Eagle Point Elementary
    Windsor Elementary
    Yahara Elementary

Student/teacher ratio:  12.8 Help
Number of students:  561

Racial breakdown:

White:
81.1%
Two or more races:
7.1%
Hispanic:
6.8%
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Free/discounted lunch recipients:  17.3% Help


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Performance Trends
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Compare Details De Forest Middle ranks better than 69.7% of middle schools in Wisconsin. (See more...)
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Compare Details In 2024 the calculated Average Standard Score was 67.86. (See more...)
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The high school dropout rate measures the percentage of students who do not complete their high school education.
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Chronic absenteeism in a school refers to a situation where students repeatedly miss school, with the threshold often defined as missing 10% or more of school days for any reason, excused or unexcused.
Student Body
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Compare Details Racial makeup is: White (81.1%), two or more races (7.1%), Hispanic (6.8%). (See more...)
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Compare Details 17.3% of students are receiving a free or discounted lunch. (See more...)
Teachers
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Compare Details The student/teacher ratio at De Forest Middle is 12.8. (See more...)
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Compare Details The average total spent per student at De Forest Middle is $11,673.
Schooldigger 2024 Rankings:

De Forest Middle:

SchoolDigger ranks De Forest Middle 194th of 641 Wisconsin public middle schools. (See De Forest Middle in the ranking list.)

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Rank History for De Forest Middle

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Rank History for all students at De Forest Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools WI State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2004 74.41 66th 324 79.6%
2005 78.46 32nd 332 90.4%
2006 68.81 121st 382 68.3%
2007 75.66 54th 366 85.2%
2008 72.73 99th 519 80.9%
2009 74.21 82nd 521 84.3%
2010 73.44 90th 539 83.3%
2011 72.19 103rd 549 81.2%
2012 74.84 73rd 559 86.9%
2013 75.77 85th 569 85.1%
2014 72.57 108th 585 81.5%
2015 68.12 162nd 612 73.5%
2016 77.87 82nd 609 86.5%
2017 67.57 164th 612 73.2%
2018 68.23 149th 579 74.3%
2019 56.92 262nd 594 55.9%
2021 62.73 206th 613 66.4%
2022 68.61 157th 617 74.6%
2023 64.24 197th 640 69.2%
2024 67.86 194th 641 69.7%
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Rank History for Multi-racial students at De Forest Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools WI State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 60.74 35th 96 63.5%
2019 38.73 65th 101 35.6%
2021 49.78 58th 129 55.0%
2022 38.19 81st 126 35.7%
2023 57.98 50th 132 62.1%
2024 35.03 95th 131 27.5%
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Rank History for English Language Learner students at De Forest Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools WI State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2021 30.90 115th 138 16.7%
2022 77.68 9th 158 94.3%
2023 64.68 24th 170 85.9%
2024 48.68 70th 173 59.5%
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Rank History for Special Education students at De Forest Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools WI State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 55.02 143rd 417 65.7%
2019 28.26 327th 414 21.0%
2021 41.72 254th 437 41.9%
2022 65.00 94th 421 77.7%
2023 45.54 215th 439 51.0%
2024 54.89 154th 425 63.8%
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Rank History for Low Socio Economic Status students at De Forest Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools WI State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 43.91 282nd 489 42.3%
2019 40.68 311th 487 36.1%
2021 36.72 347th 499 30.5%
2022 53.71 209th 522 60.0%
2023 55.71 196th 525 62.7%
2024 39.55 330th 520 36.5%
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Rank History for Female students at De Forest Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools WI State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 67.34 159th 551 71.1%
2019 59.83 231st 557 58.5%
2021 69.52 136th 574 76.3%
2022 76.39 94th 576 83.7%
2023 68.76 150th 579 74.1%
2024 77.08 107th 580 81.6%
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Rank History for Male students at De Forest Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools WI State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 67.79 140th 551 74.6%
2019 53.60 270th 557 51.5%
2021 55.40 248th 572 56.6%
2022 60.11 210th 577 63.6%
2023 59.71 220th 591 62.8%
2024 55.17 276th 585 52.8%
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Rank History for Asian students at De Forest Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools WI State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 60.77 33rd 90 63.3%
2019 41.54 48th 91 47.3%
2021 50.01 42nd 90 53.3%
2023 21.42 71st 90 21.1%
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Rank History for African American students at De Forest Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools WI State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 51.79 48th 123 61.0%
2019 28.79 92nd 127 27.6%
2021 64.22 28th 134 79.1%
2022 82.59 10th 125 92.0%
2023 71.61 19th 130 85.4%
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Rank History for Hispanic students at De Forest Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools WI State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 81.25 18th 204 91.2%
2019 74.63 31st 209 85.2%
2021 64.49 56th 225 75.1%
2022 59.87 69th 221 68.8%
2023 52.52 97th 229 57.6%
2024 57.30 90th 239 62.3%
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Rank History for White students at De Forest Middle

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools WI State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 59.26 137th 375 63.5%
2019 44.68 224th 382 41.4%
2021 56.19 161st 393 59.0%
2022 65.88 104th 397 73.8%
2023 55.27 177th 412 57.0%
2024 59.08 163rd 407 60.0%
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Data source: test scores: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

As you review the school rankings data, please be aware that some of the information from certain demographics is missing. The reason for this omission is that the data has been redacted from the source data itself due to low population samples in these specific demographic groups.

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Data source: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

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Enrollment information for De Forest Middle

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Year White African American Asian Hispanic American Indian Pacific Islander Two or More Races Not Specified Total
1989 479 2 1 6 6 n/a n/a 0 494
1990 517 2 4 8 2 n/a n/a 0 533
1991 549 1 4 9 1 n/a n/a 0 564
1992 581 6 4 7 4 n/a n/a 0 602
1993 606 4 7 6 3 n/a n/a 0 626
1994 646 3 4 7 3 n/a n/a 0 663
1995 668 5 5 9 3 n/a n/a 0 690
1996 668 5 5 9 3 n/a n/a 0 690
1997 670 7 5 10 4 n/a n/a 0 696
1998 676 14 15 13 3 n/a n/a 0 721
1999 690 11 15 16 6 n/a n/a 0 738
2000 680 20 15 20 2 n/a n/a 0 737
2001 668 17 8 16 6 n/a n/a 0 715
2002 903 17 11 27 6 n/a n/a 0 964
2003 903 17 11 27 6 n/a n/a 0 964
2004 913 24 21 24 4 n/a n/a 0 986
2005 926 29 28 30 9 n/a n/a 0 1022
2006 896 46 29 37 12 n/a n/a 0 1020
2007 842 53 38 34 7 n/a n/a 0 974
2008 831 45 34 34 9 n/a n/a 0 953
2009 824 52 39 36 7 n/a n/a 0 958
2010 833 47 42 39 6 n/a n/a 0 967
2011 868 34 38 40 6 0 22 0 1008
2012 872 36 32 43 3 0 26 0 1012
2013 868 39 35 47 3 0 24 0 1016
2014 889 42 40 37 4 0 24 0 1036
2015 844 47 38 41 1 0 33 0 1004
2016 828 36 43 42 0 1 38 0 988
2017 833 37 39 54 2 1 39 0 1005
2018 843 38 43 64 1 1 51 0 1041
2019 871 32 39 57 1 1 58 0 1059
2020 885 37 32 69 2 0 52 0 1077
2021 883 38 28 67 1 0 72 0 1089
2022 443 25 13 41 1 0 30 0 553
2023 455 15 13 38 0 0 40 0 561

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Enrollment/Ethnicity

For more information about how the Department of Education defines ethnicity, see Defining Race and Ethnicity Data, National Center for Education Statistics

Students eligible for free or discounted lunch at De Forest Middle

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1989 494 35.0 14.1 3
1990 533 40.5 13.1 2.8
1991 564 40.0 14.1 3.9
1992 602 44.0 13.6 3.7
1993 626 41.6 15.0 3.2
1994 663 42.1 15.7 3.2
1995 690 48.0 14.4 2.8
1996 690 48.0 14.4 2.8
1997 696 48.5 14.4 3.9
1998 721 52.5 13.7 3.6
1999 738 56.5 13.1 7.2
2000 737 56.5 13.0 7.7
2001 715 58.4 12.2 7.8
2002 964 70.2 13.7 13.7
2003 964 70.2 13.7 13.7
2004 986 73.3 13.5 14.1
2005 1022 76.1 13.4 n/a
2006 1020 76.0 13.4 n/a
2007 974 73.4 13.3 18.4
2008 953 74.0 12.9 19.1
2009 958 70.5 13.6 19.2
2010 967 70.0 13.8 21.6
2011 1008 67.0 15.0 22.4
2012 1012 57.0 17.7 23.7
2013 1016 65.0 15.6 22.3
2014 1036 65.0 15.9 23.4
2015 1004 n/a n/a 22.8
2016 988 63.0 15.6 22.1
2017 1005 65.6 15.3 17.3
2018 1041 68.3 15.2 18.9
2019 1059 71.1 14.8 19.7
2020 1077 73.3 14.6 18.3
2021 1089 76.3 14.2 21.8
2022 553 42.6 12.9 20.6
2023 561 43.5 12.8 17.3

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Students eligible for discounted/free lunch:

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides low-cost or free meals to students in U.S. public and nonprofit private schools based on household income. Those with incomes below 130% of the poverty line receive free lunch, while those between 130% and 185% qualify for reduced-price lunch. The percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch serves as a marker for poverty, as it reflects the socioeconomic status of families in a given school or district. A higher FRPL rate typically indicates a higher concentration of low-income families, suggesting that the school or district may face additional challenges in providing adequate resources and support for student success.

Student/Teacher Ratio De Forest Middle

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1989 494 35.0 14.1 3
1990 533 40.5 13.1 2.8
1991 564 40.0 14.1 3.9
1992 602 44.0 13.6 3.7
1993 626 41.6 15.0 3.2
1994 663 42.1 15.7 3.2
1995 690 48.0 14.4 2.8
1996 690 48.0 14.4 2.8
1997 696 48.5 14.4 3.9
1998 721 52.5 13.7 3.6
1999 738 56.5 13.1 7.2
2000 737 56.5 13.0 7.7
2001 715 58.4 12.2 7.8
2002 964 70.2 13.7 13.7
2003 964 70.2 13.7 13.7
2004 986 73.3 13.5 14.1
2005 1022 76.1 13.4 n/a
2006 1020 76.0 13.4 n/a
2007 974 73.4 13.3 18.4
2008 953 74.0 12.9 19.1
2009 958 70.5 13.6 19.2
2010 967 70.0 13.8 21.6
2011 1008 67.0 15.0 22.4
2012 1012 57.0 17.7 23.7
2013 1016 65.0 15.6 22.3
2014 1036 65.0 15.9 23.4
2015 1004 n/a n/a 22.8
2016 988 63.0 15.6 22.1
2017 1005 65.6 15.3 17.3
2018 1041 68.3 15.2 18.9
2019 1059 71.1 14.8 19.7
2020 1077 73.3 14.6 18.3
2021 1089 76.3 14.2 21.8
2022 553 42.6 12.9 20.6
2023 561 43.5 12.8 17.3

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Student-Teacher Ratio

Student/teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of students by the total number of full-time equivalent teachers. Please note that a smaller student/teacher ratio does not necessarily translate to smaller class size. In some instances, schools hire teachers part time, and some teachers are hired for specialized instruction with very small class sizes. These and other factors contribute to the student/teacher ratio. Note: For private schools, Student/teacher ratio may not include Pre-Kindergarten.
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Per Pupil Expenditures for De Forest Middle

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YearExpenditures from Federal FundsExpenditures from State and Local FundsTotal Expenditures Per Pupil (All Funds)
2019 $249 (2.3%) $10,486 (97.7%) $10,736
2020 $275 (2.5%) $10,633 (97.5%) $10,908
2021 $271 (2.3%) $11,403 (97.7%) $11,673

Data source: Wisconsin Department of Education
Pre and Post Pandemic Data

Impact of COVID-19 on De Forest Middle

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Rankings

Rank
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Rank
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Ranks 262nd of 594 Middle schoolsRanks 197th of 640 Middle schools
 13.3%

Test Scores

% proficient
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
% proficient
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
7th Grade English Language Arts (De Forest Middle)4443.1
 0.9%
   7th Grade English Language Arts (De Forest Area School District)4443.1
 0.9%
   7th Grade English Language Arts (Wisconsin)45.541.1
 4.4%
7th Grade Mathematics (De Forest Middle)37.142.5
 5.3%
   7th Grade Mathematics (De Forest Area School District)37.142.5
 5.3%
   7th Grade Mathematics (Wisconsin)39.735.7
 4%
8th Grade English Language Arts (De Forest Middle)4339.2
 3.8%
   8th Grade English Language Arts (De Forest Area School District)4339.2
 3.8%
   8th Grade English Language Arts (Wisconsin)37.337.8
 0.5%
8th Grade Mathematics (De Forest Middle)29.344.1
 14.7%
   8th Grade Mathematics (De Forest Area School District)29.344.1
 14.7%
   8th Grade Mathematics (Wisconsin)36.531.8
 4.7%
8th Grade Social Studies (De Forest Middle)54.664.9
 10.3%
   8th Grade Social Studies (De Forest Area School District)54.664.9
 10.3%
   8th Grade Social Studies (Wisconsin)52.159.2
 7.1%
8th Grade Science (De Forest Middle)62.355.7
 6.5%
   8th Grade Science (De Forest Area School District)62.355.7
 6.5%
   8th Grade Science (Wisconsin)54.649.4
 5.3%

Student Body

Number of students
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Number of students
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Total Students1059561
 47%
African American3215
 53.1%
American Indian10
 100%
Asian3913
 66.7%
Hispanic5738
 33.3%
Pacific Islander10
 100%
White871455
 47.8%
Two or More Races5840
 31%
% Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients19.7%17.3%
 2.4%


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De Forest Middle ranks 194th of 641 Wisconsin middle schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 3 stars out of 5.

Students who attend De Forest Middle usually go on to attend De Forest High

In the 2022-23 school year, 561 students attended De Forest Middle.

Students at De Forest Middle are 81% White, 7% Two or more races, 7% Hispanic, 3% African American, 2% Asian.


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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

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