Swallow School District

Swallow School District in Hartland, Wisconsin, is a single-school district made up of Swallow Elementary, which serves grades PK–8 and enrolls 432 students, so children stay in one building from early childhood through eighth grade. Because there is only one school, the school's results and the district's results are the same: Swallow School District ranks 1st of 432 Wisconsin districts, placing in the 100th percentile with a 5-star rating. There is no other school in the area to compare against, so families weighing this district are choosing a single, very small, consistently high-performing campus.

Academically, students score far above state averages in every subject and at every reported grade. On the Forward Exam, average scores in 2025–2026 were 86.8% in English Language Arts, 91.7% in Mathematics, 95.7% in Social Studies, and 84.2% in Science, compared with state averages of 54.0%, 53.7%, 65.1%, and 52.7%. The same pattern held in 2024–2025. The strongest single result was 7th-grade Mathematics at 96.3%, and even the lowest reported score—3rd-grade ELA at 75%—was still about 23 points above the state's 52.08%. Statewide, the school ranked 5th of 1,039 schools in 2025–2026, 4th in 2024–2025, and 7th in 2023–2024.

Operationally, Swallow Elementary reports chronic absenteeism of 2.5% versus 17.3% statewide, a 0.0% dropout rate versus 1.1%, a free/reduced lunch rate of 2.78%, a student–teacher ratio of 14.7, and per-student spending of $14,669. Parents should note that with only 432 students, individual grade results can swing year to year—for example, 6th-grade ELA moved from 98% to 88.46%—so single-year figures are best read alongside the broader, steady pattern of top-tier performance.