Horizon Elementary

Located at 625 N Heatherstone Dr, in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Horizon Elementary is a mid-tier primary school that hosts 345 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Sun Prairie Area School District.

Across the 16 schools in Sun Prairie Area School District (8,549 students total), Horizon Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Horizon Elementary records that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 15% Asian, 14% Hispanic, 8% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Dane County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Horizon Elementary records 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Horizon Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.0%, the actual is 68.5%, a residual of +6.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Dane County) records that median household earnings sit near $89,975, about 55% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Dane County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), of which Horizon Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Sun Prairie West High, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Horizon Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Horizon Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 46.6%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Horizon Elementary's enrollment has shrank 30% since 2018, when it stood at 494 (now 345). Hispanic enrollment moved from 5% to 14% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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