Mount Horeb Middle

Set in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, Mount Horeb Middle is a mid-sized middle-grades school, overseen by Mount Horeb Area School District. It serves 503 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 32% above the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 381 students.

Across the 6 schools in Mount Horeb Area School District (2,298 students total), Mount Horeb Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Mount Horeb Middle logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Beyond that, the school shows 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

Looking at school resources, Mount Horeb Middle records 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 15% of students at Mount Horeb Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Dane County (around 32%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mount Horeb Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.6%; this one delivers 65.8%.

In the broader community, Dane County reports that median household income runs about $89,975, 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mount Horeb Middle is one of 169 public schools in Dane County (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students).

Mount Horeb High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mount Horeb Middle comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 70.9%.

Mount Horeb Middle operates from a town-based location.

Five-year trend. Mount Horeb Middle's enrollment has contracted 12% since 2018, when it stood at 571 (now 503).

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