Summary:
ZIP code 53528 — Cross Plains, Wisconsin — contains a single middle school in this data set: Glacier Creek Middle, a grades 5–8 building serving 924 students in the Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District. With roughly 231 students per grade, it is a large middle school, and because there are no other middle schools in this ZIP to compare against, the useful benchmarks are the school versus its own district and the school versus the state of Wisconsin.
Glacier Creek's results are consistently strong. It has ranked in the top 6% of Wisconsin middle schools for three consecutive years (94th–95th percentile, 5 stars), and that 5-star rating sits above the district's overall 4-star, 89th-percentile standing. The school beats the state on all 20 reported test results across the last two years, by margins of +12.0 to +28.5 percentage points, and beats its own district on 8 of 10 subject-and-grade tests in 2025-2026 and 7 of 10 in 2024-2025. Standouts include 8th-grade Social Studies at 87.98 and 8th-grade Science at 80.38 — 28.5 points above the state.
Two items to watch: 6th grade is the only grade trailing the district in both ELA and Math in 2025-2026, with the year's largest single-year declines, and the average margin over the state narrowed slightly from +22.8 to +21.6 points. Climate measures are favorable — chronic absenteeism of 13.6% is below both the district (15.4%) and the state (17.3%), and the dropout rate is 0.2%. Context matters: $17,680 per student, an 11.4:1 student-teacher ratio, and a 14.29% free/reduced-lunch rate.
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