Summary:
ZIP code 54082 is home to exactly one public elementary school: Houlton Elementary, a K–5 school with 217 students in Houlton, Wisconsin, part of the Hudson School District. Because there is only one school here, there are no in-ZIP peers to compare it against — the meaningful comparisons are Houlton against its district and against the state of Wisconsin, and in both cases it comes out ahead.
Houlton ranked 8th out of 1,039 Wisconsin elementary schools in 2025–2026 (99th percentile, 5 stars), after placing 15th in 2023–2024 and 36th in 2024–2025 — three straight years in the top 4%. Its Forward Exam proficiency beats both its district and the state on every reported metric in both years. In 2025–2026, proficiency ranged from 77.27% (5th-grade ELA, its lowest) to 96.67% (4th-grade math); averaged across the eight reported metrics, Houlton scored 88.4%, versus 75.8% for its district and 54.7% for the state. That gap matters because Hudson is itself a high-performing district, ranking in the 91st percentile statewide. The school also improved year over year, rising from an 81.7% aggregate to 88.4% while the state figure barely moved.
Beyond test scores, chronic absenteeism was just 5.1%, well below the district's 11.9% and the state's 17.3%. Per-student spending is $17,040, with a 12.2:1 student–teacher ratio. One caveat for parents: grade-level cohorts are small — roughly 30–40 students — so a handful of students can shift a percentage by several points, and year-over-year subject comparisons involve different students rather than matched individual growth.
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