Tomorrow River Community Middle (trcms), Amherst Junction WI

Original Research by School Decision on Tomorrow River Community Middle (trcms)

Tomorrow River Community Middle (TRCMS) was a charter public middle school within the Tomorrow River School District, located in the small rural village of Amherst Junction, Wisconsin. It is now closed. The school served only middle grades and was designated a regular school that operated under a charter. No enrollment count or demographic breakdown is available in the data reviewed, so readers will not find a student body profile here.

Amherst Junction is a very small village with a history as a railroad junction and potato shipping center. Its commercial peak included dozens of businesses, among them a school, taverns, hotels, and warehouses. Today it is primarily residential and rural, with a high homeownership rate. The village is experiencing a slight population decline, and the median age skews older. Most employment for residents is likely found in nearby communities like Amherst or Stevens Point. The village’s built environment remains small, and street life is minimal given its size and rural classification.

For the 2022-23 school year, the last year for which state assessment data is available, TRCMS students took Wisconsin’s Forward exam in math, English language arts, science, and social studies. Performance varied noticeably by grade and subject. In math, the share of students scoring proficient or above was modest in grade 5, lower in grades 6 and 7, and settled at a similar level for grade 8. English language arts results followed a comparable pattern: grade 5 and grade 6 saw modest proficiency, grade 7 was lower, while grade 8 recorded a stronger showing. In science and social studies, tested only in grade 8, the majority of students met the proficiency standard, with social studies achieving the highest result of any tested subject and grade. A parent considering this school when it was open would have seen a mixed picture, with eighth grade reading and social studies as relative strengths and math and reading in earlier middle grades as areas needing attention.

Because the school served only middle grades, there is no graduation rate, and the testing data is limited to those grade levels. The school's status as a charter school suggests some flexibility in programming or governance, though specific course offerings or curriculum details were not available in the data provided. The district that operated the school, Tomorrow River School District, passed a significant facilities referendum in 2022 that funded a new STEAM addition and remodeling of middle school spaces, among other improvements. That investment reflects district-level priorities for science, technology, engineering, arts, and math, though it came just as this particular school was approaching closure.

The data available does not explain why the school closed or what replaced it for students in the district. A parent researching the area today would need to confirm where middle school students now attend and whether the district’s STEAM investment has been carried into a new school building or program. For someone looking back at what this school offered, the academic record shows a small middle school with uneven proficiency across grades and subjects, set in a rural village with a quiet, shrinking population and a district that had recently committed to modernizing its facilities.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 545%

School 45% · District 62% · ▼ 17 pts below district

▼ 6 pts below state median

Grade 627%

School 27% · District 73% · ▼ 46 pts below district

▼ 26 pts below state median

Grade 717%

School 17% · District 57% · ▼ 40 pts below district

▼ 37 pts below state median

Grade 822%

School 22% · District 70% · ▼ 47 pts below district

▼ 29 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 530%

School 30% · District 52% · ▼ 22 pts below district

▼ 21 pts below state median

Grade 627%

School 27% · District 65% · ▼ 38 pts below district

▼ 26 pts below state median

Grade 717%

School 17% · District 59% · ▼ 42 pts below district

▼ 35 pts below state median

Grade 861%

School 61% · District 62% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 9 pts above state median

Science

Grade 878%

School 78% · District 64% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 27 pts above state median

Social studies

Grade 889%

School 89% · District 70% · ▲ 19 pts above district

▲ 25 pts above state median

This schoolTomorrow River School District, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 5Lower-income20%Higher-income40%20 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 5Lower-income40%Higher-income50%10 pp gap