Summary:
ZIP code 53818 covers Platteville, Wisconsin, where two elementary schools serve a combined 648 students under the Platteville School District — a district rated 75th of 432 districts statewide (83rd percentile, 4 stars). The two schools split the elementary years: Neal Wilkins Early Learning Center serves PK–K with 205 students, and Westview Elementary serves grades 1–4 with 443 students, about 68% of the local elementary enrollment.
Westview Elementary is the academic standout. It scored above the Wisconsin state average in every reported subject, grade, and year — in 2025–2026, for example, ELA grade 4 was 69.17 versus the state's 53.87, and Math grade 4 was 70.00 versus 52.87. Its unweighted average proficiency was 67.83 against a state average of 55.42, a gap of about 12 percentage points (and the gap was even wider the year before). Westview has earned 4 stars in each of its three recent rank-history years, though its relative standing slipped from 125/1061 (88th percentile) in 2023–2024 to 250/1039 (76th percentile) in 2025–2026 — still top-quartile, but worth watching.
Because Neal Wilkins serves PK–K, it has no current Forward Exam results — the test starts in grade 3 — so parents should not judge it on proficiency scores; its only ranking is from 2007–2008 and is far too old to be meaningful. On operational measures it looks strong: chronic absenteeism of 13.5% versus Westview's 14.3%, a student-teacher ratio of 11.8 versus 13.8, and $15,734 per student versus $14,091. Both schools beat the district's 17.5% and the state's 17.3% chronic absenteeism rates. Note that the district's grade 3–4 test results mirror Westview exactly in this data.
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