Summary:
ZIP code 54944 has two middle schools—Hortonville Middle (grades 5–8, 464 students) and Fox West Academy (grades 6–8, 65 students)—both in the Hortonville Area School District, a high-performing district ranked 59th of 432 Wisconsin districts (86th percentile, 4 stars).
Both schools outperform the state in every reported Forward Exam subject and grade in 2024–25 and 2025–26. Hortonville Middle is the larger, consistently elite option: it ranked 58th of 643 middle schools in 2025–26 (91st percentile, 5 stars), up from 161st in 2023–24. Its strongest results were Social Studies 8 (83.78%), Math 7 (81.18%), and Science 8 (78.38%). Fox West Academy is a small-school standout, ranking 72nd of 643 (89th percentile, 4 stars) in 2025–26, up from 248th and 3 stars in 2023–24. It has lower free/reduced lunch (12.31% vs. 18.97%), 0.0% chronic absenteeism, $5,796 per-student spending versus $14,266, and a 21.6 student-teacher ratio versus 12.5. Hortonville Middle’s chronic absenteeism is 5.3%, above the district’s 2.4% but far below the state’s 17.3%. Both have 0.0% dropout, compared with the state’s 1.1%.
Families should weigh grade span and size. Hortonville Middle serves grade 5, and those scores pull its overall average down; when comparing grades 6–8 only, its 2025–26 simple average is about 74.7%, slightly above Fox West’s 73.3%. Fox West’s 65-student enrollment makes year-to-year results volatile—Social Studies 8 fell from 94.74% to 76.19% and Science 8 from 78.95% to 65.00%, while Math 7 rose from 60.00% to 80.95%. Hortonville Middle is larger and more consistent; Fox West is tiny, efficient, and high-performing but less predictable. In 2025–26, Hortonville is stronger in Science 8 and Social Studies 8, while Fox West is stronger in ELA 6, ELA 7, and Math 8; Math 7 is nearly tied (81.18% vs. 80.95%).
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