Summary:
ZIP code 53130 (Hales Corners, Wisconsin) is served by two PK–5 elementary schools — Hales Corners Elementary (520 students) and Edgerton Elementary (378 students) — both in the Whitnall School District, which ranks 60th of 432 Wisconsin districts (86th percentile). Together they enroll about 898 students, and the data on them is unusually complete: three years of state rankings and two years of Forward Exam results in ELA, math, social studies, and science, with no suppressed scores.
Edgerton is the higher-ranked of the two, earning 5 stars in 2025‑26 and ranking 80th of 1,039 Wisconsin elementary schools (92nd percentile). Its 4th grade results are the strongest in the data set — 87.69% proficient in social studies and 83.08% in both math and science, the last of which is 30.21 points above the state. Edgerton also runs the smaller classes, at 12.6 students per teacher, and has the broader advantage in mathematics and science, including a 16.4-point lead over Hales Corners in 4th grade science.
Hales Corners is the momentum story: its state rank climbed from 298th to 178th to 121st over three years, a gain of 177 positions, and it posts the lowest chronic absenteeism in the data set at 2.0% — versus 3.2% at Edgerton, 8.0% for the district, and 17.3% statewide. It also wins 5th grade in both ELA (77.27 vs. 65.67) and math, so the two schools lead at different points in the PK–5 arc. Both spend nearly the same per student ($14,371 vs. $14,397), both improved on 7 of 8 measures year over year, and every proficiency figure at both schools clears its state benchmark by at least 12.96 points.
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