Summary:
ZIP code 53122 covers Elm Grove, Wisconsin, and contains two schools — one elementary serving grades PK–5 and one middle school serving grades 6–8 — with no high school included in this snapshot, both part of the Elmbrook School District, which ranks 9th of 432 Wisconsin districts at the 98th percentile with 5 stars.
Both schools are rated 5 stars and sit in the 98th percentile statewide for 2025–2026, and together they enroll 1,431 students. Pilgrim Park Middle enrolls 898 students and ranks 14th of 643 middle schools, climbing from 40th to 18th to 14th over three years. Tonawanda Elementary enrolls 533 students and ranks 24th of 1,039 elementary schools. Absenteeism is remarkably low at both: 1.2% at Tonawanda and 2.6% at Pilgrim Park, versus 3.1% district-wide and 17.3% statewide. Pilgrim Park's dropout rate is 0.1%, compared with 1.1% statewide. Resources are similar — $14,080 per student at Tonawanda and $14,245 at Pilgrim Park — with student-teacher ratios of 15.2 and 14.6 respectively. Both serve relatively small free/reduced-lunch populations, 7.32% and 8.35%.
Test results are strong at both schools. Pilgrim Park's 2025–2026 Forward Exam proficiency ranges from 76.67% to 86.39% across listed subjects and grades, and Tonawanda's ranges from 71.43% to 91.14%, while state scores sit mostly in the 50s and low 60s. Tonawanda's 4th grade Math score of 91.14% is the highest single result in the ZIP, and its 4th grade ELA (89.87%) and Social Studies (88.61%) are close behind. The one relative soft spot is Tonawanda's 5th grade Math at 71.43%, below the district's 79.92% and down 12.91 points from the prior year, though still 19.62 points above the state. Since the dataset covers only PK–8, high school outcomes for this area are not represented here.
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