Summary:
Elementary schools in the Mount Horeb Area School District in Wisconsin consist of three schools serving grades PK–5 — Mount Horeb Early Learning Center (PK–K, 160 students), Mount Horeb Primary Center (grades 1–2, 269 students), and Mount Horeb Intermediate (grades 3–5, 508 students) — enrolling 937 students between them in a district rated 5 stars, 90th percentile, and ranked 44 of 432 in the state.
Academically, Mount Horeb Intermediate is the standout: it is the only school here with Forward Exam results, and in 2025–2026 every listed proficiency rate topped the Wisconsin average, usually by double digits. Math is especially strong — 3rd grade math was 74.07% against a state figure of 54.75%, a gap of 19.32 percentage points — and its rank history holds steady at 4 stars with statewide percentiles between 79 and 82. Mount Horeb Primary Center leads on attendance and staffing, with the lowest chronic absenteeism at 3.4%, the lowest student-teacher ratio at 11.5, and the highest per-student spending at $18,070. Mount Horeb Early Learning Center is the smallest school, with 160 students, 6.0% chronic absenteeism, and the group's highest student-teacher ratio at 14.4.
Attendance is a district-wide strength: all three schools sit below the district's 7.4% chronic absenteeism and the state's 17.3%, for a weighted average of about 5.0%. Free/reduced lunch rates are tightly clustered from 13.75% to 14.37%, indicating similar socioeconomic composition. Notably, the Intermediate enrolls more students than the other two schools combined while spending the least per student ($15,350, or $2,720 below the Primary Center), yet posts the strongest tested results. No test scores are suppressed or bounded here; the Primary Center and Early Learning Center simply serve grades below the state testing window, so their value in this data lies in enrollment, attendance, staffing, spending, and early-grade capacity.
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