Summary:
ZIP code 53150 is home to two middle schools — Muskego Lakes Middle and Lake Denoon Middle — both serving grades 5–8 within the Muskego-Norway School District, which ranks 23rd of 432 in Wisconsin at the 95th percentile with a 5-star rating.
Both schools are standouts within the top 5% of Wisconsin middle schools. Muskego Lakes ranked 26th of 643 in 2025–2026 (96th percentile, 5 stars), while Lake Denoon ranked 30th of 643 (95th percentile, 5 stars). Muskego Lakes holds the current-year edge in overall proficiency, about 81.3% versus 79.8%, along with a slightly lower student-teacher ratio (13.7 vs. 14.3) and lower chronic absenteeism (9.2% vs. 10.3%). Lake Denoon is the steadier performer: its overall proficiency stayed essentially flat at about 79.9% across both years, it climbed from 57th of 641 in 2023–2024 to 29th of 628 in 2024–2025, and it is consistently strong in social studies (84.95% in 2024–2025 and 86.45% in 2025–2026). Muskego Lakes, meanwhile, posted a dramatic social studies gain of 15.21 percentage points, from 72.22% to 87.43%.
Math is the strongest subject at both, running roughly 30 points above the state average: Muskego Lakes averaged 85.5% and Lake Denoon 86.2% in 2025–2026, versus about 53.7% statewide. Science is the relative soft spot but still comfortably above state, at 72.99% and 67.10% in 2025–2026 versus about 51.86%. Both schools report a 0.0% dropout rate, far below the state's 1.1%, and absenteeism well under the state's 17.3%. Per-student spending is nearly identical ($15,344 vs. $15,192), and free/reduced lunch is low at both (9.62% and 10.4%). In short, families here get two very strong schools, one with a stronger current-year profile and one with steadier two-year results.
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