Company Profile
Mukwonago Area School District
Company Overview
The Mukwonago Area School District is located in the southwest corner of beautiful Waukesha County. Our 90 square miles encompass several different municipalities including the Village and Town of Mukwonago, the Villages of Big Bend and North Prairie and the towns of Vernon, Eagle, Ottawa, East Troy and Waukesha. We have approximately 30,000 people residing within our district and proudly serve 4,700 students in six elementary schools, one middle school, and one comprehensive high school.
The Mukwonago Area School District is a leader among a competitive group of suburban school districts in Waukesha County. Located 25 minutes southwest of Milwaukee, our communities offer small-town charm with remarkable conveniences. Together with top-notch educational opportunities for children of all ages, we offer your child the opportunity to grow academically and socially in a rigorous but supportive environment. Explore our websites and search social media for #onemukwonago to get a feel for our school climate and culture, and don't forget to ask for a school tour!
Did You Know?
MASD ranks in the top 10% of Wisconsin schools (DPI).
MHS was ranked the 16th best public high school in Wisconsin out of 511 schools. (U.S. News).
MASD offers leading-edge technology supports including STEM, 1:1 wireless device frameworks, and personalized learning.
MASD has TWO National Blue Ribbon schools, Section Elementary and Prairie View Elementary, an honor given to less than 1% of schools in the U.S.!
The Mukwonago community offers exceptionally strong community support to provide student internships, mini-grants, and co-op learning opportunities.
Mukwonago High School has placed on the National College Board AP Honor Roll for four of the last six years.
90% of parents with students in MASD's special education program expressed approval; 77% of special educations students continue in higher ed/employment (DPI).
MASD is home to Waukesha County's first elementary 5K-6th grade tuition-free charter school. The charter offers multi-grade level classrooms and enrichment curriculum in STEM, Environmental Conservation, and Spanish Language. It is also home to the MASD state certified school forest.
MASD is state-recognized for exemplary safe and supportive schools (DPI).
MASD has a strong faculty retention rate; over 70% of certified staff have a Masters degree.
MASD staff are continually fostering strong school-to-home connections and championing parent support.
MASD schools have collectively over 100 clubs, sports, and activities!
We offer programs at six elementary schools, one middle school, and one comprehensive high school. All schools consistently rank as top-performing schools academically when compared to peers across the state. We also have a wide variety of extracurricular athletics and activities to complement student academics.
Company History
Prairie View Elementary Time Line:
1840- First school in North Prairie, held in the loft of a home.
1843- $150 raised to build school on current site.
1909- Sixty-eight students in eight grades became the first school community.
1911- Second room added. Each heated with its own stove.
1916- A basement was dug beneath school and a furnace was added.
1929- Electricity installed.
1929- PTA formed.
1930- Money borrowed and red brick building built. Total cost: $19,758.61.
1931- One acre of land purchased to enlarge the playground. Music program begun with teachers from Carroll University.
1933- Weekly Reader introduced.
1944- Teacher's salaries were $1,575 per year.
1952- First telephone installed.
1953- First Hot Lunch Program begun.
1954- Two more classrooms added to make a four room school. Steps and sidewalk installed partway down the hill by the Lion's Club.
1955- First movie projector purchased for the school.
1957- School busses first used.
1959- Gym, stage and six classrooms added. First fulltime principal hired.
1966- Kindergarten added during spring semester.
1968- South addition to the school built. Fulltime librarian hired.
1978- Major renovation to building, students attend classes at different sites throughout the district during construction. Enlarged enough to accomodate 3 sections per grade level.
Big Bend Elementary School
1842 - Vernon District #1 was organized. It later became Joint District #1 and was consolidated with the Mukwonago Area Schools, Joint District #10 in 1971. The school was also known as Big Bend State Graded.
1857 or 1859 - The first school building was built. Before a building was built, classes were held in private homes and the teachers went from house to house instructing students.
1860, 1861, or 1862 - Stone school building was built.
1919 - Structure (3 classrooms) built on the corner of what is now 164 and Edgewood Avenue.
1950 - Hot lunch program began in December.
1953 - New kitchen is built for the hot lunch program.
1954 - 4 classrooms added.
1957 - Principal, Jack Delaney, taught 7th and 8th grade in the morning.
1958 - Office complex, a gym, and 2 classrooms added. John F. Ronan was principal.
1960 - Leo Mulholand becomes principal.
1966 - 4 classrooms and a library were added.
1970 - 6 classrooms added.
1972 - Guthrie Elementary consolidates with Big Bend Elementary (and other district schools) and closes.
1975 - Guthrie Elementary re-opens to house 5 kindergarten sections (122 students) for Big Bend Elementary (358 first through sixth grade students) which was running at it's capacity.
1976 - Old school bell is removed.
Clarendon Elementary School
1949-1950: The School Board purchases the site. There is a story that the road in front of the site had previously fronted a farm and was named after the farmer’s two children, Clare and Don and that the school took the name of the road, but it is not true.
03/17/1951: Clarendon Avenue Elementary opened its doors. The original cost was $160,000.00. There was an enrollment of 243 students and a small teaching staff. One school bus made two runs to accommodate students.
1952: The Clarendon playground was finished. The hot lunch program began. Lunches were 25¢.
1956: Clarendon becomes K-8, Joint District #3, but the building houses K-6. The small gym was added for a total cost of $25,000.00.
1956: Three one-room schools were consolidated into Clarendon: West Vernon, Vernon Center, and Edgewood. Due to space limitations, Clarendon houses grades K-4. The enrollment was 547 and the teaching staff had grown to 17.
1959: An addition opened at a cost of $405,283.78. The office, gym, cafeteria, band and music rooms were all part of the addition. Students in grades K, 5, and 6 from newly annexed school, Jonesville, attended Clarendon.
1960: The enrollment grew to 661 with a staff of 27. Clarendon officially becomes K- 6. Fifth and sixth graders return to Clarendon.
1964: The west wing was added it included 12 classrooms plus three office and a teacher’s lounge. The enrollment jumps to 900 students.
1972: All schools from the Mukwonago Area Schools, Joint District #10. Sixth graders are moved to Park View because of space constraints. Enrollment at Clarendon is now 1037 with a staff of 42.
1973: Fifth graders are moved to Washington Avenue due to being overcrowded. The school becomes known as the Clarendon Avenue complex.
1974: The library doubles in size. Enrollment is 1094.
1979: The small gym is converted into classrooms. Enrollment is 1241.
1980: Enrollment is at 1241 with a teaching staff of 69.
1981: The cafeteria is cut in half to make another classroom. Enrollment is at 1253 with a staff of 76.
1979: Redistricting occurs when Section Elementary opens. Fifth and sixth graders move back to Clarendon. Enrollment is 789 with a staff of 50.
Eagleville Elementary Charter School
In 1849, James Polk was president of the United States soon to be replaced by Zachary Taylor. The Eagleville area with its bustling mill, post office, stores and marshland was the metropolis of the township. Then the time came to add a school to the community.
The task of building a school would take ten years. Many people of the community had conflicting opinions as to whether this school should be built below the big hill or at the top of the hill. From 1849 until 1859, the children attended classes at a home rented by Mr. Andrew Scholfield. In 1859, a 24x30x12 foot high framed building went up on land donated by the Bovee family. Another ten years passed. By 1869, the school needed repairs and the building was moved to a site below the hill where Eagleville Elementary Charter School stands today.
Theodore Sprague was the first instructor during the winter term of 1869-70. He named Maggie Partridge his best student during that term. She later became a much beloved teacher at Eagleville and taught for many years as a new century dawned.
Eagleville Elementary was the site of many interesting activities back in the early years. Winter debates were held in the evenings and drew large crowds. Topics included whether a horse was more useful than a cow and the merits of city living versus country living. Oyster suppers were held a the school with the oysters cooked in a wash boiler on the school stove. Children would sometimes pile into a bob sleigh driven by a team of horses and visit neighboring schools.
By 1931, it was time to tear down the old building and construct a new school. Then, a $25,000 addition was built in 1949 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Eagleville Elementary. In 1960, another addition was built that presently includes Mrs. Selzer's classroom and the music room, as well as the office, gym, Principal's office, library, health & storage rooms.
Our retired third grade teacher, Mrs. Lois Dewey, attended Eagleville as a child. At that time it housed grades 1-8. Her mother, Mrs. McGrath, taught first and second grades at Eagleville for many years.
Mrs. Dewey recalls, "During the winter months we brought our sleds or skis to use at recess time. We went sledding down the hill north of the school. There was even a merry-go-round on the playground." When Mrs. Dewey graduated from Eagleville Elementary, there were only eight other eighth graders.
The Eagleville Alumni Association formed in 1929. The association met for many decades and enjoyed yearly reunions held a Wambold Park. Alumni would gather and compare stories on who had done the most daring escapade during their school days.
Today Eagleville Elementary retains its country school charm as students play and enjoy the beauty of the nearby lake now known as Eagle Spring Lake. The lake was converted from the original marshland by the Wambold family.
A mural was painted by Eagleville students, teachers, and art students from the Mukwonago High School in 2001. The mural adds to the history of Eagleville School as we enjoy the new millennium.
Today students continue a tradition that has taken place for decades at Eagleville Elementary. Every first day of school, each first grade student rings the school bell - a bell that has been part of the school since its beginning. The last day of school every year, each sixth grade student rings their bell to celebrate their educational journey through the school.
Rolling Hills Elementary School
Rolling Hills Elementary welcomed students for the first time in the fall of 2000. Now in our 17th year, we continue to be committed to providing the very best education to our students. With a current enrollment of about 500 students in 21 homerooms in grades K-6, we strive to help every student reach their potential.
Section Elementary School
For more than 125 years, a public school has sat prominently at this rural intersection, while educating Town of Mukwonago children. In the 19th century, as today, area residents placed great emphasis on education, as did the federal government. In fact, the financial returns generated through the original sale of federal lands in Section 16 of each township helped to subsidize the local public school system. Because of its geographical proximity to Section 16, also known as the School Section, the small educational institution at this centrally located crossroads came to be known as Section School. We perpetuate this historical tradition by constructing a large modern school, committed to the same goals of educational excellence as its 19th century Town of Mukwonago one-room predecessors. Opened in September of 1982, Section Elementary School serves approximately 450 students in grades K-6.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
Educational Program:
The school district has been recognized by the Association of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce for our students' academic performance and the district's fiscal responsibility.
The district was named the first 'Governmental Agency of the Year' by the Waukesha County Executive based on our service to students, staff and the community and the district is one of only 15% of districts nation-wide to receive the What Parents Want Award.
Safety
In 2016, Mukwonago was listed as the second safest city in the state of Wisconsin based on FBI crime statistics. Each school takes school safety seriously and has implemented a number of security measures. http://www.safewise.com/blog/safest-cities-wisconsin-2016/
The Mukwonago Area School District and our eight schools performed extremely well on the Department of Public Instruction’s annual report card ratings. The District’s score of 78.8 put us in the top 8% of the state’s 366 K – 12 districts. All individual schools earned scores in the top two rating tiers of “Exceeds Expectations” or “Significantly Exceeds Expectations.” Three schools (Clarendon Avenue Elementary, Prairie View Elementary, and Eagleville Elementary Charter) earned the top rating from DPI of “Significantly Exceeds Expectations.” Another two schools (Rolling Hills Elementary and Section Elementary) were within half a point from reaching this achievement.
Mukwonago High School was recently named to the College Board’s 4th Annual AP Honor Roll. We are 1 of 477 districts in the entire nation to be recognized with this honor for increasing Advanced Placement Course options, increasing student participation, and maintaining a high level of student success over the past 3 years.
Mukwonago High School and Park View Middle School have both been recognized as PBIS Schools of Merit due to the implementation of the “Mukwonago Way” and “Mustang Way” programs. We have created positive school climates where all students can be successful. You can count on our students to “Be on Time, Respectful, Responsible, and Safe!”
Prairie View Elementary School recently joined Section Elementary as a part of the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program. This prestigious award goes to the top schools in the nation and recognizes them for overall academic excellence.
Benefits
Wisconsin Retirement System
Health Insurance
Long/Short Term Disability Insurance
YMCA Discount
WeightWatchers At Work Program