Seneca Junior High, Seneca WI - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Seneca Junior High

Seneca Junior High serves grades six through eight in the rural unincorporated community of Seneca, Wisconsin, which sits along Wisconsin Highway 27 amid rolling farmland and pastures in Crawford County. The school building shares a Main Street address with the elementary and high school, placing all three on the same highway corridor that also holds the community's small businesses and churches. This is a small school, and the student body reflects the surrounding agricultural region.

The academic picture from the most recent state testing shows a mixed pattern across grades and subjects. In English language arts, the school performs at a level a parent may want to examine closely from grade to grade. Sixth graders show a strong proficiency rate, seventh graders a solid one, and eighth graders a lower one. In mathematics, the same pattern appears: sixth grade comes in strong, seventh grade a bit lower, and eighth grade lower still. Science, tested only in eighth grade, posts a high proficiency rate, while social studies in eighth grade is more modest. Because the tested groups are small, year-to-year shifts can reflect the makeup of a single cohort rather than a trend. The school's overall proficiency score across tested subjects and grades sits above the midpoint relative to other districts in Crawford County, placing it in the higher half of the county's range.

No graduation rate data exists for this school because it serves only middle grades. Disciplinary data, chronic absenteeism figures, and information on special education or English learner populations were not available in the provided records. A parent interested in those areas would need to ask the school directly for details.

The student population is almost entirely white. Just under half the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a sizable share of families with lower incomes. The school is a regular public school within the Seneca Area School District. No charter, magnet, or Title I designations were included in the data. No information on course access, staffing ratios, or attendance rates was available.

Seneca itself is a small place with no large employers. The school district, local farms, and small businesses serving daily needs make up the economic base. The community has a fire station and is close to outdoor recreation such as trout streams, hunting, hiking trails, and rivers for canoeing and kayaking. No public library or transit system was documented in the materials reviewed. A parent considering a move here will find a quiet, rural setting where the school sits at the center of town life, not on a separate campus. The district brief turned up no recent parent-relevant changes such as referendums, curriculum shifts, or facility projects, so a newcomer would be entering a stable but informationally thin environment. For families who value a small, highway-corridor school with a strong sixth-grade foundation in both reading and math, and who are comfortable asking directly for details the data does not supply, this junior high fits. Those concerned about the drop in proficiency from sixth to eighth grade will want to discuss instructional continuity and support with the school.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 665%

School 65% · District 65%

▲ 11 pts above state median

Grade 755%

School 55% · District 55%

▲ 1 pts above state median

Grade 844%

School 44% · District 44%

▼ 7 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 682%

School 82% · District 82%

▲ 29 pts above state median

Grade 765%

School 65% · District 65%

▲ 13 pts above state median

Grade 850%

School 50% · District 50%

▼ 2 pts below state median

Science

Grade 875%

School 75% · District 75%

▲ 24 pts above state median

Social studies

Grade 863%

School 63% · District 63%

▼ 2 pts below state median

This schoolSeneca 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 6Lower-income88%Higher-income78%10 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income44%Higher-income82%37 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income40%Higher-income67%27 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income50%Higher-income78%28 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income44%Higher-income64%19 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income30%Higher-income67%37 pp gap