Summary:
ZIP code 53572 covers Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, and is home to five public schools serving prekindergarten through 12th grade: three elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school, all part of the Mount Horeb Area School District. Together they enroll 2,185 students, and the district ranks 44th of 432 Wisconsin districts — the 90th percentile, with a 5-star rating.
Mount Horeb High is the standout, rated 5 stars and ranked 32 of 533 schools in the 94th percentile, with a 98.3% graduation rate and test scores far above state averages. Mount Horeb Middle is a 4-star school ranked 102 of 643 (84th percentile) and has climbed steadily from 130th over three years, with particularly strong 8th-grade social studies. Mount Horeb Intermediate is also 4-star, ranked 196 of 1,039 (81st percentile), with strong math in grades 3–5. Mount Horeb Primary Center (grades 1–2) and Mount Horeb Early Learning Center (PK–K) have no state test or rank data because they serve untested grades.
Chronic absenteeism is a system-wide strength: every school is below the state’s 17.3% rate, from 3.4% at the Primary Center to 9.4% at the High School, compared with a district average of 7.4%. Free and reduced lunch rates are tightly clustered between 12.08% and 14.71%, per-student spending runs from $15,350 to $18,070, and student-teacher ratios range from 11.5 to 14.6. Every reported test score exceeds the state average, with the narrowest margin at Middle School 8th-grade math (still above state). The main watch items are High School math, which dipped from 61.93 to 57.58, and Middle School 6th-grade ELA, which fell from 72.25 to 61.80 — both still above state averages.
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