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Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 53508


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Top rankedBelleville Elementary149th of 1,039 Wisconsin elementary schools
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Belleville Elementary up 36 spots statewide this year
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Summary:

ZIP code 53508 in Belleville, Wisconsin is served by a single elementary school: Belleville Elementary, which enrolls 550 students in grades PK–6 and belongs to the Belleville School District.

Belleville Elementary is a high-performing school by nearly every measure in the data. Its statewide rank improved for three straight years, from 254 of 1,061 (76th percentile) in 2023–2024 to 185 of 1,044 in 2024–2025 and 149 of 1,039 (86th percentile) in 2025–2026, holding a 4-star rating throughout. The district is even stronger, ranking 34 of 432 districts at the 92nd percentile with 5 stars. On the Forward Exam, the school beat the state on all 20 school-vs-state comparisons across 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. Averaged across the ten listed tests each year, school proficiency rose from 68.98% to 71.76%, while the state averaged 53.83% and 54.65%—a school advantage that widened from about 15 points to about 17 points. In 2025–2026, the school exceeded the state by 9.19 to 23.26 points on every individual test, with the biggest gaps in Mathematics 4th Grade, ELA 3rd Grade, and Science 4th Grade. Chronic absenteeism is just 5.6%, well below the district's 9.7% and the state's 17.3%.

For parents, the main strengths are consistently above-state reading, math, science, and social studies results, a steadily improving statewide rank, and very low absenteeism. Grade-level details are worth noting: Science 4th Grade posted the largest one-year gain (+9.00 points to 76.12%), ELA 3rd Grade jumped +8.67 points to 75.34%, and Mathematics 5th Grade improved +8.84 points. Social Studies 4th Grade remains the highest raw score (79.10%), while ELA 5th Grade is the lowest listed school score at 62.82%—still above the state's 53.63%. Slight declines appeared in ELA 4th Grade, Mathematics 6th Grade, and Social Studies, but all remain above state benchmarks. With a 13.9 student-teacher ratio, about $13,785 in per-student spending, and a 21.09% free/reduced lunch rate, the school combines strong results with a comparatively low absenteeism rate.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

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