Honor Intermediate

Honor Intermediate, an one-room-style 6-8 campus in Rubicon, Wisconsin, operated by Herman-Neosho-Rubicon School District, serves 128 students, covering grades 5 through 8. That puts it 66% below the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 381 students.

Honor Intermediate is one of 2 schools operated by Herman-Neosho-Rubicon School District, a district that hosts 314 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Honor Intermediate lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Beyond that, the school logs 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Dodge County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 17% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Dodge County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Honor Intermediate sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 67.1%; actual is 50.5%, a gap of -16.6 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Dodge County indicate the typical household earns roughly $75,929 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Honor Intermediate is one of 39 public schools in Dodge County (combined enrollment of about 10,450 students).

Honor Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.7 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Honor Intermediate ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 60.4%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Honor Intermediate has edged down 8%, going from 139 students in 2018 to 128 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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