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Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 53578

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1,067

Students

Top rankedGrand Avenue Elementary451^st of 1,039 Wisconsin elementary schools

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Summary:

ZIP code 53578 in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin is home to three elementary schools — Bridges Elementary (PK–2, 458 students), Grand Avenue Elementary (3–5, 396 students), and Tower Rock Elementary (PK–5, 213 students) — all part of the Sauk Prairie School District, which serves about 1,067 elementary students here and ranks 197th of 432 districts statewide.

Grand Avenue is the strongest academic performer: it scored above the state proficiency rate in all eight reported subject and grade combinations in both 2024-2025 and 2025-2026, with its best results in 4th-grade Social Studies (72.46% proficient, versus 65.51% statewide and 69.47% in the district) and 4th-grade Math (61.59%, versus 52.87% statewide). Bridges, which serves only the earliest grades and has no state test data (testing starts in 3rd grade), posts the best attendance figure in the group at 6.4% chronic absenteeism, well below both the district (14.9%) and the state (17.3%). Tower Rock is the concern: its state ranking fell from the 53rd percentile to 31st and then to the 26th percentile (1 star) over three years, and its 5th-grade Math proficiency of 23.53% is the lowest figure in the data set, far under the district (49.46%) and state (51.81%). Its chronic absenteeism of 16.0% is roughly double Bridges' rate, and its free/reduced lunch share (43.66%) is nearly double that of the other two schools.

Two things stand out for parents. First, resources do not explain the gap: Tower Rock spends the most per student ($16,582) and has the smallest classes (10.3 to 1), while Grand Avenue spends the least ($14,205) and performs best. Second, Tower Rock's results are uneven rather than uniformly weak — its 3rd graders beat the district in both ELA (61.54 vs 58.19) and Math (60.00 vs 52.84) in 2025-2026, while grades 4 and 5 fell below. With only 213 students, a single classroom can swing a school-wide percentage by double digits, so year-to-year jumps should be read as small-cohort volatility rather than proof of decline — but they are worth asking about directly.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				Forward Exam English Language Arts (2026)			Forward Exam Mathematics (2026)			Forward Exam Social Studies (2026)	Forward Exam Science (2026)	Per Pupil Expenditures (2025)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients (2025)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	Forward Exam English Language Arts 3rd Grade	Forward Exam English Language Arts 4th Grade	Forward Exam English Language Arts 5th Grade	Forward Exam Mathematics 3rd Grade	Forward Exam Mathematics 4th Grade	Forward Exam Mathematics 5th Grade	Forward Exam Social Studies 4th Grade	Forward Exam Science 4th Grade	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Grand Avenue Elementary	Public	3-5	225 Grand Ave	Prairie du Sac	53578	Sauk County	Sauk Prairie School District	No	No	No	No	(608) 643-1900	396	30	13.3	23.2%	349 (88.1%)	6 (1.5%)	29 (7.3%)	2 (0.5%)	3 (0.8%)	0 (0.0%)	7 (1.8%)	59.4	451^st of 1039 public elementary schools	56.6%		63.9	402^nd of 1044 public elementary schools	61.5%	49	56.2	58.0	54.5	51.5	61.6	53.0	72.5	56.5	$14,205	$828	$13,377
Bridges Elementary	Public	PK, KG-2	1200 Broadway St	Prairie du Sac	53578	Sauk County	Sauk Prairie School District	No	No	No	No	(608) 643-1800	458	36	12.6	24.0%	399 (87.1%)	1 (0.2%)	41 (9.0%)	2 (0.4%)	3 (0.7%)	0 (0.0%)	12 (2.6%)								(n/a)									$14,278	$618	$13,660
Tower Rock Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	S9033 Denzer Rd	Prairie du Sac	53578	Sauk County	Sauk Prairie School District	No	No	No	Yes	(608) 643-1997	213	21	10.3	43.7%	157 (73.7%)	3 (1.4%)	49 (23.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	4 (1.9%)	34.1	768^th of 1039 public elementary schools	26.1%		40.5	723^rd of 1044 public elementary schools	30.7%	45	61.5	42.9	35.3	60.0	42.9	23.5	48.6	40.0	$16,582	$1,805	$14,777

Cities Near Zip Code 53578

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Prairie du Sac	0.23 mi	4	274^th
Sauk City	0.64 mi	2	98^th
Merrimac	8.22 mi	1	16^th
Lodi	9.22 mi	5	108^th
Mazomanie	9.36 mi	3	54^th

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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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