Mount Horeb High

Mount Horeb High operates as a large four-year high school in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Mount Horeb Area School District. Current enrollment sits at 745 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 475 students each, so Mount Horeb High sits 57% above that benchmark.

Mount Horeb High is one of 6 schools operated by Mount Horeb Area School District, a district that teaches 2,298 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Mount Horeb High records that nearly all students (90%) are White. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. The state averages about 14.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 12% of students at Mount Horeb High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Dane County's rate of about 32%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mount Horeb High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 70.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 67.5%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Dane County) shows that median household earnings sit near $89,975, 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Mount Horeb Middle, around 0.1 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mount Horeb High comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 66.2%.

Mount Horeb High operates from a town-based location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mount Horeb High has declined 3%, going from 772 students in 2018 to 745 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Mount Horeb High community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.