Summary:
ZIP code 53040 is home to a single middle school: Kewaskum Middle, part of the Kewaskum School District, serving grades 6–8 with 418 students. It is a 4-star school that ranked 90th out of 643 Wisconsin middle schools in 2025–2026, placing it in the 86th percentile — roughly the top 14% of middle schools statewide. Its rank has improved steadily, from 100th in 2023–2024 to 93rd in 2024–2025 to 90th in 2025–2026, holding 4 stars each year. The district is also 4-star, ranking 47th of 432 districts in Wisconsin, in the 89th percentile.
Academically, the school outperformed the state average in every listed Forward Exam subject and grade in 2025–2026. Averaging the eight listed assessments, about 71.5% of students were proficient versus about 55.5% statewide — an average advantage of roughly 16 percentage points. The largest margins were in 8th grade ELA (+24.67 points, at 79.05% proficient), 7th grade math (+20.89 points), and 8th grade math (+19.30 points). Social Studies 8th grade reached 80.41% and Science 8th grade 66.89%. Year over year, 8th grade ELA gained 14.48 points, while 6th grade ELA and math each dipped by a little more than 5 points — though both remain above state averages.
Non-test measures are strong as well: chronic absenteeism is 2.4%, far below the district's 3.9% and the state's 17.3%, and the dropout rate is 0.0%, compared with 0.4% in the district and 1.1% statewide. About 26.32% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, spending per student is $13,237, and the student-teacher ratio is 13.4:1. For families, this means one strong, consistent option with top-quartile results; the item worth watching is the recent 6th grade dip.
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