River View School, Kaukauna WI - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on River View School

River View School is a regular public middle school in the Kaukauna Area School District, serving grades five through eight. It is a single campus that funnels all of the district's upper elementary and middle-grade students into one building. That means a student who enters River View in fifth grade will spend four years with largely the same peer group before moving on to high school, creating a stable, cohort-based experience.

The school sits in Kaukauna, a mid-sized city on the Fox River in Outagamie County, part of the Appleton metropolitan area. Kaukauna has a historic downtown along Second Street, a long industrial history anchored by a large paper mill, and a growing population. The city is divided by the Fox River into North and South sides, and schools are on separate campuses spread across both. The district itself received voter approval for an operational referendum in 2024 to exceed state revenue limits over a period of years, directing the funds toward maintaining educational programming and small class sizes, according to publicly reported sources. That vote suggests a community willing to invest in its schools.

On state assessments, River View posted solid results across the tested grades. In math, the share of students scoring proficient or above was consistent across grades five, six, and seven, then softened modestly in eighth grade. In English language arts, performance was strongest in sixth grade, dipped slightly in seventh, and was at its lowest in eighth grade, where just over half of students met the proficiency bar. Science and social studies are tested in eighth grade only; science proficiency was lower, while social studies was higher. Taken as a whole, River View's overall proficiency across all tested subjects and grades placed above the midpoint among districts in Outagamie County. That is a clear strength. The school's participation rates on all tests were high. With this being a middle school, there is no graduation rate to report.

The student body is large for a school serving this grade band. The majority of students are white, with Hispanic and two-or-more-races students making up the next largest groups, and smaller shares of Asian, Black, and American Indian or Alaska Native students. Roughly one in four students qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, a share that suggests a mix of economic backgrounds. Data on students with IEPs and English learners was not available in the source material. A parent may want to ask the school directly about those support offerings, as they can be central to understanding how a school serves a full range of learners.

The housing context for families moving into the area shows home values that are roughly aligned with the state's overall median and slightly below the national figure. Rents are moderate relative to incomes, and the local cost of living is above the national average, according to the data available. Kaukauna has seen steady population growth in recent years, and the district's approved referendum points to an active investment in maintaining class sizes.

This is a school where a student will move through the middle grades in a single, consistent building with a large peer group. The academic picture is one of generally solid proficiency, particularly in math through seventh grade and in social studies, with some softness in eighth-grade English and science. For a family considering Kaukauna, the school represents a conventional public middle-school pathway within a district that has signaled a commitment to preserving its programming through a voter-approved funding increase.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 574%

School 74% · District 74%

▲ 23 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Grade 672%

School 72% · District 72%

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Grade 773%

School 73% · District 73%

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

Grade 869%

School 69% · District 69%

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 562%

School 62% · District 62%

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

Grade 671%

School 71% · District 71%

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Grade 767%

School 67% · District 67%

▲ 15 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 857%

School 57% · District 57%

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Science

Grade 855%

School 55% · District 55%

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 870%

School 70% · District 70%

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

This schoolKaukauna Area 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-income46%Higher-income68%22 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income59%Higher-income76%17 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income58%Higher-income70%11 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income31%Higher-income66%35 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 5Lower-income61%Higher-income80%19 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income54%Higher-income79%24 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income55%Higher-income79%24 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income55%Higher-income74%19 pp gap