Summary:
ZIP code 53572 is served by three elementary schools, all within the Mount Horeb Area School District in Wisconsin, forming a full PK–5 pipeline with 937 students: the Mount Horeb Early Learning Center (PK–K), the Mount Horeb Primary Center (grades 1–2), and the Mount Horeb Intermediate (grades 3–5). The district is rated 5 stars and ranks 44th of 432 Wisconsin districts, in the 90th percentile.
Mount Horeb Intermediate is the largest school with 508 students (54% of the three-school total) and the only one with Forward Exam results, since testing begins in grade 3. It holds a 4-star rating with percentiles of 81st (2025–2026), 82nd (2024–2025), and 79th (2023–2024). Its chronic absenteeism is 5.5%, and math proficiency ranged from 70.55% to 74.07% in 2025–2026, versus state rates of 51.81% to 54.75%. The Primary Center enrolls 269 students and posts the lowest absenteeism (3.4%), lowest student-teacher ratio (11.5), and highest per-student spending ($18,070). The Early Learning Center is smallest at 160 students, with 6.0% absenteeism, $16,202 in spending, and a ratio of 14.4. The two lower-grade schools tie at 13.75% free/reduced-price lunch.
Absenteeism is low everywhere: all three schools sit below the district's 7.4% and far below the state's 17.3%. Poverty indicators are tightly clustered between 13.75% and 14.37%. Notably, spending is highest at the Primary Center while tested performance is strongest at the Intermediate, and student-teacher ratios do not track simply with outcomes — though this small data set supports no causal conclusions. The Intermediate outperforms the state in every reported subject and grade, with year-over-year gains in ELA across all three grades and in math for grades 3 and 5, a slight dip in grade 4 math, and a roughly 1.8-point social studies decline that still left it the highest absolute score. The absence of test scores at the Primary Center and Early Learning Center is expected, not a sign of weakness, because those grades are not tested.
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