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Rolling Hills Elementary
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 1 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 58 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 75 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 23% smaller than its 6th grade class (75).
School pathway
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.0% | 83.3% |
| 2023-24 | 79.2% | 86.1% |
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
Schools most like Rolling Hills Elementary
Rolling Hills Elementary's state test result (80.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rolling Hills Elementary this school | 455 | 12.7% | 80.3% |
| Big Bend Elementary Big Bend | 455 | 11.9% | 78.4% |
| Addison Elementary Hartford | 441 | 12.7% | 70.6% |
| Summit Elementary Oconomowoc | 504 | 11.5% | 81.5% |
| Mill Valley Elementary Muskego | 417 | 13.2% | 82.5% |
| Mount Horeb Intermediate Mount Horeb | 508 | 14.4% | 68.6% |
Where Rolling Hills Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Waukesha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.3% | #35 of 982 | #14 of 56 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.3% | #33 of 992 ▼ 15 | #8 of 56 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #43 of 992 no change | #12 of 56 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 455 | #229 of 1,157 | #26 of 65 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #693 of 901 | #42 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.4% | #653 of 901 | #42 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.7% | #985 of 1,064 | #35 of 63 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.1% | #522 of 664 | #21 of 27 |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 455 | 30.2 | 15.1:1 | 13% (58) |
| 2023-24 | 447 | 33.2 | 13.5:1 | 12% (55) |
| 2022-23 | 460 | 34.1 | 13.5:1 | 12% (55) |
| 2020-21 | 491 | 31 | 15.8:1 | 15% (74) |
| 2017-18 | 490 | 29.8 | 16.4:1 | 13% (65) |
| 2015-16 | 496 | 27 | 18.4:1 | 13% (63) |
| 2010-11 | 542 | 28 | 19.4:1 | 10% (54) |
| 2000-01 | 609 | 35 | 17.4:1 | 4% (22) |
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (490 to 455); teachers up 1% (29.8 to 30.2).
About Rolling Hills Elementary
Rolling Hills Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Wisconsin, located in Mukwonago. Total enrollment is 455 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 6. Elementary schools in Wisconsin have about 323 students on average; enrollment here is 41% higher.
Rolling Hills Elementary is run by Mukwonago School District, whose 9 schools enroll 4,835 students.
Rolling Hills Elementary is 86% White by enrollment. Other reported shares: 7% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. That is in line with Waukesha County, where about 87% of residents are White. The diversity index for Rolling Hills Elementary is 25%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school's 30.2 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.1:1. The average for elementary schools in Wisconsin is about 14.7:1. At Rolling Hills Elementary, 13% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25.
On BeatsExpectations, Rolling Hills Elementary is 10.5 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Wisconsin schools.
The school's county is Waukesha County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $106,076, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 49%, and about 3% of people live in poverty. Waukesha County's 113 public schools enroll about 60,032 students and include Rolling Hills Elementary.
Measured in a straight line, Section Elementary is about 1.1 miles from Rolling Hills Elementary. The five-mile area around Rolling Hills Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Rolling Hills Elementary ranks 2nd on proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Town: Fringe. That means it sits in a town close to an urbanized area.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 491 to 455, a 7% decline.
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