Swallow Elementary, Hartland WI - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Swallow Elementary

Swallow Elementary is a single public school that serves students from four-year-old kindergarten through eighth grade, operating as part of the Swallow School District. It sits near Hartland, a village in Waukesha County roughly twenty miles west of Milwaukee, in the region known as Lake Country. Hartland itself mixes residential neighborhoods with a growing industrial base and a traditional downtown along Cottonwood Avenue and Capitol Drive. Twelve lakes sit within a short radius, and parks, golf courses, and the Bark River are part of the setting. The village is growing, though housing is expensive; the combined home values and rents for the area are well above the national and state benchmarks. A small share of students at Swallow qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student body is predominantly white, with a small Asian population and very small Black, Hispanic, and multiracial groups. The school is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet, and has no Title I status listed.

The school's academic performance on Wisconsin's Forward exam was strong across every tested grade and subject. In math, the share of students scoring proficient or advanced in third grade was high, and it reached an even higher mark in grades four, five, six, and seven, with only a moderate softening in eighth grade. English language arts results followed a very similar pattern, with the strongest showing in sixth grade and slightly lower but still strong rates in third and eighth grades. Fourth graders posted very high proficiency in both science and social studies. Eighth graders also showed solid proficiency in those subjects, though science was the lowest single area among all test results. The school's overall proficiency index places it well above the midpoint among the districts in Waukesha County, sitting at the top of the range. State testing data for the earlier primary grades is not applicable, as Wisconsin does not test those levels.

Because Swallow Elementary serves students only through eighth grade, there is no high school graduation rate to report, and families with teenagers will need to look to the Arrowhead Union High School District, which serves all of Hartland and draws from multiple K-8 feeder districts. The absence of a four-year graduation rate for this school is not a shortcoming; it simply reflects the grade band. Similarly, data on chronic absenteeism was not available in the source material, so that metric could not be evaluated against neighboring districts. Parents who want to know about attendance patterns or student support in that area may wish to ask the school directly.

The school's enrollment numbers are consistent with a full K-8 program. The student counts per grade show a steady distribution through the middle school years. There is no reported data on special education identification rates or English learner services, which limits the view into the school's support structure for those students. Any parent considering Swallow for a child with an Individualized Education Program or language support needs would want to inquire directly about those services.

Hartland's civic life is centered downtown, but schools including Swallow Elementary are on their own campuses rather than integrated into that core. The village itself is growing at a modest pace, with historical annexations including the Hartridge Subdivision and Bristlecone Pines. No new major housing developments were named in the search, but the housing market in the zip code is tight and expensive.

For a family looking at this school, the picture is of a high-performing K-8 option in an expensive, growing suburban setting. The academic results are consistently strong across all four tested subjects and across all tested grade levels, with no obvious weak spots beyond a dip in eighth-grade science that still represents a solid majority of students meeting the bar. The school's student body is not economically diverse, and racial diversity mirrors the surrounding area, meaning it is limited. The school is not part of a large district but operates as its own single-school district, which may appeal to families who want a contained, small-district experience for their child's elementary and middle school years.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 384%

School 84% · District 84%

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Grade 494%

School 94% · District 94%

▲ 40 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 594%

School 94% · District 94%

▲ 43 pts above state median · ▲ 22 pts above county median

Grade 696%

School 96% · District 96%

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

Grade 794%

School 94% · District 94%

▲ 40 pts above state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

Grade 883%

School 83% · District 83%

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

English language arts

Grade 378%

School 78% · District 78%

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

Grade 492%

School 92% · District 92%

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

Grade 590%

School 90% · District 90%

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

Grade 698%

School 98% · District 98%

▲ 45 pts above state median · ▲ 23 pts above county median

Grade 789%

School 89% · District 89%

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

Grade 888%

School 88% · District 88%

▲ 36 pts above state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

Science

Grade 488%

School 88% · District 88%

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

Grade 873%

School 73% · District 73%

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 494%

School 94% · District 94%

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

Grade 885%

School 85% · District 85%

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

This schoolSwallow 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.