Greenville Middle, Greenville WI

Original Research by School Decision on Greenville Middle

Greenville Middle serves grades five through eight in the Hortonville Area School District, drawing its students from the fast-growing village of Greenville, Wisconsin, a community west of Appleton that incorporated as a village in 2021 and has been expanding steadily. The school occupies its own campus on Fawnridge Drive, consistent with the village’s spread-out pattern of residential subdivisions and business parks rather than a traditional downtown core. It is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet.

State testing results from the Wisconsin Forward assessment show that students perform at a consistently strong level across all four tested grades. In both math and English language arts, the share of students reaching proficiency or above runs well above most districts in Outagamie County, a pattern that holds from fifth through eighth grade. At eighth grade, where science and social studies are also tested, the school’s results in civics and social studies are especially high, while science results, though solid, are a step behind the other subjects. Overall, Greenville Middle’s combined proficiency across all subjects and grades lands it in the top quartile when compared with other districts in the county. Because the school ends at eighth grade, there is no graduation rate to report.

The student body is moderately sized for a middle school and is overwhelmingly white, with the next largest group being Hispanic students and a smaller Asian population. The share of students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch is low, reflecting the area’s relatively affluent housing market: homes in Greenville are valued notably above both the state and national medians. The community itself is heavily car-dependent, with no walkable downtown core, and its economy is anchored by the Appleton International Airport and a cluster of major employers including logistics, aerospace, and manufacturing firms. The village has been adding new housing developments and recently constructed an additional elementary school to handle enrollment growth, a trend that will continue feeding into Greenville Middle.

The school’s strong academic profile and low poverty rate suggest a student body with considerable family resources and a learning environment that faces few of the resource constraints common in higher-poverty schools. No data on discipline or chronic absenteeism was available, so a parent may want to ask the school directly about those areas. The district did not have any recent major changes publicly reported that would affect families.

For a family moving to the Fox Cities area, Greenville Middle offers a high-performing academic program in a growing outer-suburb setting. The school fits households that prioritize strong standardized test results, value a relatively homogeneous peer environment, and are comfortable with a car-dependent village that lacks a traditional downtown but provides ample parks and a trail system. Parents whose children will eventually move on to Hortonville High School should find a solid middle-school foundation here.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 564%

School 64% · District 66% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Grade 668%

School 68% · District 68%

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Grade 774%

School 74% · District 77% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 20 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Grade 867%

School 67% · District 66%

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 566%

School 66% · District 65% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 15 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Grade 668%

School 68% · District 67% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 15 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 764%

School 64% · District 68% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▲ 12 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 870%

School 70% · District 70% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Science

Grade 862%

School 62% · District 64% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 880%

School 80% · District 81% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

This schoolHortonville Area School District, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 5Lower-income30%Higher-income71%41 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income39%Higher-income73%34 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income32%Higher-income69%37 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income56%Higher-income73%17 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 5Lower-income30%Higher-income68%38 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income43%Higher-income72%30 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income41%Higher-income79%38 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income48%Higher-income70%21 pp gap