Horizon Elementary

Located at 411 S Highland Ave, in Plymouth, Wisconsin, Horizon Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary campus that enrolls 245 students (grades pre-K through 4), part of Plymouth Joint School District. Enrollment runs roughly 24% leaner than the state mean of about 323.

Plymouth Joint School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,000 students. Horizon Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Horizon Elementary logs that nearly all students (84%) are White. The remainder consists of 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Horizon Elementary has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Sheboygan County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Horizon Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.6%, the actual is 54.4%, a residual of -1.2 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Sheboygan County indicate the typical household earns roughly $73,094 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Horizon Elementary is one of 52 public schools in Sheboygan County (combined enrollment of about 17,340 students).

Plymouth High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Horizon Elementary at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 61.7%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Horizon Elementary has edged down 19%, going from 301 students in 2018 to 245 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 90% to 84% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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