The top reported proficiency rate is 56% in Math. The lowest is 55% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Little Chute Intermediate
Little Chute Intermediate serves only fifth and sixth grade, a brief two-year bridge between elementary school and the higher grades in the Little Chute Area School District. For a family looking at this school, the first thing to understand is the narrow grade span. There is no high school here, so there is no graduation rate, no SAT or ACT data, and no advanced placement or dual-credit course access to evaluate. The school is a regular public school in a village of modest size, and the academic picture comes entirely from state reading and math tests taken at the end of fifth and sixth grade.
On those state assessments, roughly half of the school’s students scored at the proficient or advanced level in both reading and math in the most recent testing year. Fifth-grade performance in reading and math landed at the same level, about half of students meeting the bar, while sixth-grade results were close to that mark in math and slightly lower in reading. The school’s overall proficiency index, which combines all tested subjects and grades, sits below the midpoint when placed against other districts in Outagamie County. That is the most direct available comparison. For a parent, this suggests that the school’s academic results are not at the top of the county but are within a range that many families would find solid. The participation rates on the tests were very high, which means the results give an accurate read of the student body rather than a selected subset.
The student body is predominantly white, as is common in this part of Wisconsin, with a modest share of Hispanic students and small numbers of students who are Asian, Black, American Indian, or multiracial. Just over two in five students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a marker of economic need that is present but not the dominant story. Data on students with disabilities and English learners was not available in the public record, so a family with a child who receives special education services or is learning English would want to ask the school directly about those supports.
The school is housed in Little Chute, a village that sits at the eastern edge of Appleton along the Fox River. The community has a strong and visible Dutch-Catholic heritage, with a working windmill, an annual festival called Kermis, and St. John Nepomucene Church as a longtime civic anchor. The street network is suburban and car oriented, with over fifty miles of roadway maintained by the village, though Valley Transit provides bus service that connects to the broader Fox Valley area. Housing values in the area are near the national median and have risen at a pace above the national average. For a family considering a move, the village offers a stable, historically rooted setting within commuting distance of Appleton and Green Bay.
The district itself did not show recent major changes in the public record examined. The school is one piece of a three-level system that feeds into Little Chute High School, which is in the same district but not covered by this profile. A parent moving a child through fifth and sixth grade here would be looking at two years in this building before transitioning to a middle or high school setting elsewhere in the district.
The bottom line for a prospective family is this. Little Chute Intermediate is a straightforward, mid-sized public school serving a specific two-year window. Its academic results land in the middle of the county pack. The community is suburban, culturally distinctive in its Dutch traditions, and fairly affordable relative to national housing benchmarks. The school does not offer the breadth of programs a comprehensive high school would, but that is by design given its grade band. A parent who wants to understand how well the school serves students with special needs or English learners will need to ask the school directly, since that information was not available in the data reviewed. For families who value a small-town setting and a school focused on the transition years of upper elementary and early middle school, this fits that profile.
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