Mount Horeb Early Learning Center

Mount Horeb Early Learning Center, a small elementary-level community in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, run under Mount Horeb Area School District, works with 160 students, covering grades pre-K through K. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 50% below typical.

Mount Horeb Early Learning Center is one of 6 schools operated by Mount Horeb Area School District, a district that works with 2,298 students overall.

On demographics, Mount Horeb Early Learning Center logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

In terms of school funding signals, Mount Horeb Early Learning Center shows 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 14% of students at Mount Horeb Early Learning Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Dane County (around 32%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Around the school, census data for Dane County shows median household earnings sit near $89,975, about 55% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Dane County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), of which Mount Horeb Early Learning Center is one.

Mount Horeb Area Community 4K is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Mount Horeb Early Learning Center.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Mount Horeb Early Learning Center's enrollment has contracted 6% since 2018, when it stood at 170 (now 160). White enrollment moved from 90% to 86% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.