Summary:
ZIP code 53121 is home to three elementary schools — Jackson Elementary (485 students), Tibbets Elementary (431 students) and West Side Elementary (406 students) — all serving grades PK–5 and all part of the Elkhorn Area School District, for a total of about 1,322 elementary students. The district ranks 122 of 432 Wisconsin districts, at the 72nd percentile with 4 stars.
Tibbets Elementary is the academic anchor. It has earned 5 stars three years running, ranked 56 of 1,039 in 2025–2026 (95th percentile), and beats district averages in every listed test comparison. It also has the lowest free/reduced lunch rate (23.9%) and chronic absenteeism of 1.4%. West Side Elementary has the strongest momentum, climbing from the 56th to the 83rd percentile over two years, and posts the best resource profile — a 12.0 student-teacher ratio and $15,225 per student — plus the group's highest single math result, 5th-grade math at 86.96%; ELA, however, remains its weaker area. Jackson Elementary is the largest school but has slipped from the 85th percentile and 4 stars to the 60th percentile and 3 stars, with 2025–2026 5th-grade ELA and math both at 50% and 4th-grade science at 52.38%, slightly below the state.
Absenteeism is uniformly low across the ZIP code: Jackson 0.0%, Tibbets 1.4% and West Side 3.2%, all far under the district's 6.0% and the state's 17.3%. Jackson has the highest free/reduced lunch rate (38.56%), lowest per-student spending ($13,629) and highest student-teacher ratio (16.1), which align with its weaker latest results — an association, not proof of cause. In the latest year, Tibbets and West Side rank above the district's percentile; Jackson ranks below it.
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