Summary:
ZIP code 53081 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin is home to four public middle schools serving grades 6–8 — Horace Mann Middle, Farnsworth Middle, Etude Middle, and George D Warriner Middle — all within the Sheboygan Area School District, which ranks 343rd of 432 districts in the state. Together they enroll 1,180 students, but they split sharply by size: two large schools (617 and 443 students) hold 90% of the enrollment, while two very small schools (77 and 43) hold the remaining 10%.
The four divide into two clear tiers. Etude (31st percentile, 2 stars) and Warriner (30th percentile, 2 stars) rank above their own district and enroll just 120 students combined. Horace Mann (28th percentile, 1 star) and Farnsworth (20th percentile, 1 star) are the large schools, so most middle-schoolers in this ZIP attend a school rated below its own district's average. Etude's standout is 6th grade English Language Arts at 64.29% proficient, the highest single score in the group. Warriner posted the biggest one-year turnaround, rising from the 14th to the 30th percentile, with 8th grade Social Studies at 66.67% — above the state.
Shared weaknesses cut across all four. 8th grade math is the group's worst subject: every school falls below the state (53.67%), and three of the four sit in the low 30s. 8th grade ELA also trails the state everywhere. Chronic absenteeism varies wildly, from 0.0% at Warriner to 40.3% at Etude, nearly double the district (21.5%). Spending and class size don't track results — the lowest-spending, largest-class school (Etude) outperforms the second-highest-spending school (Farnsworth). Poverty is high and tightly clustered, at 61.6%–71.8% free/reduced lunch across the group.
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