Schools · Cross Plains
Cross Plains, WI schools
Kids attend Mount Horeb Early Learning Center.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
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A−
Cross Plains’s School Grade: A-
The public schools Cross Plains’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 84% of Wisconsin’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
A-Test scoresB-Graduation
Wisconsin school districts we grade (436)Better than 84%
Lower resultsHigher results
Wisconsin towns with similar household incomes (81)Better than 59%
Towns in Dane County (32)Better than 84%
High confidence. Built on 4,654 tested students and a graduating class of 523; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Wisconsin’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Wisconsin only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Wisconsin with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Cross Plains kids go to school
Grades PK–K
Mount Horeb Early Learning Center
160 students · Mount Horeb Mount Horeb Area School DistrictBased on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
State test results
Math (grades PK–K, Mount Horeb Area)46%
State average 37.2%
Math (Middleton-Cross Plains)52%
State average 37.2%
Math (Wisconsin Heights)43%
State average 37.2%
Graduation · class of 2020
96% graduate on time
Graduation rate
96%
WI: 90.1%
Graduating class
523
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #127 of 301 WI towns →
Districts
Three districts serve Cross Plains
Mount Horeb Area School DistrictGrades PK–12 · 6 schools · 2,298 students
$15,769 per studentWI $16,459A-Middleton-Cross Plains School DistrictGrades PK–12 · 12 schools · 7,167 students
$15,643 per studentWI $16,459AWisconsin Heights School DistrictGrades PK–12 · 3 schools · 782 students
$22,195 per studentWI $16,459B+Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
We don’t have any schools located in Cross Plains yet.