Elk Mound Area School District

The Elk Mound Area School District educates about 1,172 students across three schools serving every grade level — Mound View Elementary (PK–4, enrollment 456), Elk Mound Middle (5–8, enrollment 368), and Elk Mound High (9–12, enrollment 348). As a district, Elk Mound Area ranks 87th of 432 Wisconsin districts — the 80th percentile, with 4 stars.

Elk Mound Middle is the district's clear standout and the only school earning 5 stars this year. It ranks 51st of 643 middle schools (92nd percentile) and has climbed steadily from 125th two years ago. Math is exceptionally strong, with grades 5–8 scoring roughly 24–27 percentage points above the state average, and ELA, science, and social studies are all comfortably above state as well. Notably, it achieves this with the lowest per-student spending in the district ($11,974) and the highest student-teacher ratio (14.2).

Mound View Elementary is a solid 4-star school at the 76th percentile, with math (67.90% and 72.15% in grades 3–4) and 4th-grade social studies (83.54%) well above state. Elk Mound High is the district's most mixed picture: a 100% graduation rate and 0.0% dropout rate, but its rank has slipped to the 62nd percentile with 3 stars, and ACT science fell to 38.95%, below the state's 43.20%. Chronic absenteeism is a district-wide strength — 2.9%, 3.3%, and 5.9% at the three schools, all far below the state's 17.3%. Free/reduced lunch rates are tightly clustered (25.27% to 27.01%), so poverty levels don't explain the performance differences between schools.