Summary:
ZIP code 53532, covering De Forest, Wisconsin, is home to two middle-level schools — Harvest Intermediate School (grades 4–6, 966 students) and De Forest Middle (grades 7–8, 602 students) — both part of the De Forest Area School District, together serving about 1,568 students across five grade levels.
Academically, both schools are above average. All 28 grade-and-subject test results in the data exceed their state benchmarks. De Forest Middle posts the highest single score in the set — 80.07% proficient in 8th grade social studies, 15.44 points above state — and its 8th grade science result of 70.79% is 18.93 points above state, the widest margin recorded. It is also the only ranked school here, climbing from the 70th to the 80th percentile over three years and from 3 stars to 4. At Harvest Intermediate School, proficiency rises steadily from 4th through 6th grade in both ELA and math, in both reported years.
The clearest difference between the buildings is attendance: chronic absenteeism is 6.8% at Harvest versus 12.2% at De Forest Middle, though both remain well below the state's 17.3%. De Forest Middle also spends slightly more per student ($15,922 vs $14,832), has a smaller student-teacher ratio (12.4 vs 13.3), and serves a marginally higher free/reduced lunch share (19.77% vs 17.39%). Dropout is effectively zero. The main opportunities the data points to are the attendance gap between the two buildings and ELA proficiency at the 4th and 8th grade bookends — still roughly 6 points above state.
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