Summary:
The city of Howards Grove, Wisconsin is home to a single middle-level school: Howards Grove Middle, serving grades 5 through 8 with 256 students on Audubon Road (ZIP 53083) in the Sheboygan County area. It is the only middle school in the Howards Grove School District, so there is no local peer school to compare it against — and because school and district test figures are identical in every reported row, this one building effectively is the district's entire middle-grades story.
On the numbers, it is one of the strongest middle schools in Wisconsin. In 2025–26 it ranked 55th of 643 ranked middle-level schools — the 91st percentile — with a 5-star rating, up from 239th (3 stars) two years earlier and 132nd (4 stars) last year, a climb of 184 places against a stable comparison pool. Proficiency beats the state in all ten 2025–26 comparisons, by margins from about +12 points (grade 8 English) to about +41 points (grade 5 math), averaging roughly +23 points, up from about +16 points the year before. Math is the consistent engine (about 79% proficient versus roughly 54% statewide), while English made the biggest jump, from about 65% to about 75%. Attendance is equally notable: chronic absenteeism of 7.0% is less than half the state's 17.3%, and the dropout rate is 0.0% against 1.1% statewide.
What should parents watch? Performance is strongest in grade 5 (87.88 English, 92.42 math) and softest in grade 8 (66.67 in both) — roughly a 21-point English and 26-point math spread within one building. Grade 8 is also a bright spot, posting the school's top specialist result in social studies (92.16) and a strong science score (76.47). Following the same students upward shows math softening as cohorts advance (about 8–10 points in two cases) while English holds or improves. Grade 6 English slipped about 6 points year over year, the one clear soft spot.
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