Summary:
ZIP code 54739 in western Wisconsin contains just one middle-level school: Elk Mound Middle, a grades 5–8 school with 368 students in the Elk Mound Area School District. Because it is the only middle school in the area, parents should judge it against district and state benchmarks rather than against a local rival.
By those benchmarks, Elk Mound Middle performs very well. It ranked 51st of 643 Wisconsin middle schools in 2025–2026, placing in the 92nd percentile and earning 5 stars — up from the 80th percentile and 4 stars in 2023–2024. Its Elk Mound Area School District ranks 87th of 432 districts at the 80th percentile with 4 stars. In 2025–2026 Forward Exam results, math was the standout: every tested grade exceeded 75% proficiency, led by Grade 7 at 81.40%, and each grade beat the state by roughly +23 to +27 points. English Language Arts was also strong, with Grade 6 at 77.38% (+22.43 points over the state) and Grade 5 lowest at 61.64%, still +8.01 points above the state. Grade 8 Science improved from 62.65% to 68.82%, and Social Studies remained a strength at 78.49%, despite a small decline.
Attendance is another clear positive: chronic absenteeism was just 3.3%, versus 4.0% districtwide and 17.3% statewide, and the dropout rate was 0.0% against 1.1% statewide. About 25.27% of students qualified for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending was $11,974, and the student-teacher ratio was 14.2. The main things to watch are recent dips in Grade 5 ELA and Grade 5 math, though both remain above state averages, and the fact that year-over-year grade comparisons involve different cohorts of students.
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