Harvest Intermediate School

Harvest Intermediate School is a middle school of expansive scale in DeForest, Wisconsin, one of the schools within De Forest Area School District, instructing 966 students in grades 4 through 6. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 381 students each, so Harvest Intermediate School sits 154% above that benchmark.

De Forest Area School District comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,246 students; Harvest Intermediate School is among them.

On demographics, Harvest Intermediate School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%); the rest consists of 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Dane County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Harvest Intermediate School reports 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Dane County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Harvest Intermediate School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.0%; this one delivers 63.5%.

Zooming out to the county, Dane County reports that median household income runs about $89,975, 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dane County's 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), Harvest Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.

Windsor Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harvest Intermediate School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Harvest Intermediate School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 59.0%.

Harvest Intermediate School operates from a bedroom-community location.

On this page, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.