Summary:
ZIP code 53018, covering Delafield, Wisconsin, has just one public school: Cushing Elementary, an elementary school serving grades PK–5 with 281 students in the Kettle Moraine School District. Since there are no middle, high, or alternative schools in the ZIP code, this is a single-school profile rather than a comparison. Cushing stands out well beyond its own community: in 2025-26 it ranked 73rd of 1,039 Wisconsin schools, placing it in the 93rd percentile with 5 stars, after ranking 76th of 1,044 in 2024-25 and 178th of 1,061 with 4 stars in 2023-24.
Academics are the school's strongest selling point. Cushing outperformed the state in every reported Forward Exam category in both 2024-25 and 2025-26, with 2025-26 proficiency rates roughly 14 to 29 points above state averages, and it beat its own district in 7 of 8 tested areas that year. Science and math are particular strengths — 4th grade science was 81.4% proficient, about 28 points above the state, while 3rd grade math reached 82.22% and 5th grade math 80.85%. The one relative soft spot is 5th grade English Language Arts at 68.09%, the only 2025-26 area below the district's 72.32% and below its own 78% the prior year. These are different grade cohorts, so that is not evidence of individual student decline.
Attendance is another striking strength: chronic absenteeism was just 3.9% in 2024-25, compared with 8.5% district-wide and 17.3% statewide. Other context: 9.96% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, the student-teacher ratio is 12.2, and per-student spending is $17,141, though the extract offers no state or district comparators for those last two. With 281 students, grade-level scores can shift noticeably from small cohort changes, and test data covers only grades 3–5 for ELA and math and grade 4 for science and social studies.
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