Summary:
ZIP code 54739 covers Elk Mound, Wisconsin, where all students are served by a single system — Elk Mound Area School District — through three schools spanning PK–12 with 1,172 students total: Mound View Elementary (PK–4, 456 students), Elk Mound Middle (5–8, 368), and Elk Mound High (9–12, 348). The district rates 4 stars, ranking 87th of 432 Wisconsin districts, but the three schools are moving in very different directions.
Elk Mound Middle is the standout: it rose from the 80th to the 92nd percentile in two years and is the only school here with 5 stars. Its math results average about 79.3% proficient across grades 5–8, roughly 25 points above state in every grade, and 6th-grade ELA (77.38%) is the ZIP's largest single gap over the state. Mound View Elementary is a steady 4-star school, holding in the 76th percentile and posting the ZIP's highest single result — 4th-grade Social Studies at 83.54%. Elk Mound High is the concern, falling from the 85th to the 62nd percentile and from 4 stars to 3, with ACT Science at 38.95% — the only below-state score in the entire data set.
Three things matter most for families. First, attendance is exceptionally strong: chronic absenteeism runs 2.9% at the elementary, 3.3% at the middle, and 5.9% at the high school, all far under the state's 17.3%. Second, math is the district's clear strength and science its soft spot. Third, the high school's slide is about test scores, not completion — it still posts a 100% graduation rate and 0.0% dropout. Notably, the middle school has the lowest per-student spending ($11,974) yet the best results, while performance peaks in grades 6–8 and eases by grade 10.
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