Summary:
Cottage Grove, Wisconsin has four schools in this data set — three elementary schools serving grades PK through 5 and one middle school serving grades 6–8, with no high school or alternative school listed — and all four belong to the Monona Grove School District, rated 127th of 432 Wisconsin districts (71st percentile, 4 stars). Enrollment is split into distinct grade bands: Taylor Prairie Elementary (PK–K, 264 students), Cottage Grove Elementary (grades 1–2, 307), Granite Ridge School (grades 3–5, 470), and Glacial Drumlin School (grades 6–8, 766), for 1,807 students total. Only the two upper-grade schools have Forward Exam results here.
Granite Ridge School has the strongest current test profile: in 2025–2026 it was above the state average in all 8 tested subject-grade areas and improved in every one from the prior year, with standout 4th-grade Social Studies (79.02) and Science (65.03). Still, it trails the district in all 8 areas, showing it sits within an even higher-performing district. Glacial Drumlin School, the largest school, posts strong 8th-grade Social Studies (76.57) and Science (56.72), above both district and state, but its 8th-grade ELA (48.32) and Math (50.84) fall below state averages. It also has the group's highest chronic absenteeism at 18.9%, above the district's 16.7% and state's 17.3%.
Among the lower grades, Cottage Grove Elementary has the lowest absenteeism at 10.4% and the lowest student-teacher ratio at 10.1; its most recent ranking data is from 2020–2021 (63rd percentile, 3 stars), so it is not directly comparable to current rankings. Taylor Prairie Elementary is the smallest school but has the highest per-pupil spending at $19,579. Across the city, enrollment-weighted absenteeism is about 14.9%, below district and state, and free/reduced-lunch rates range narrowly from 19.97% to 22.8%.
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