HASD Mission Statement
Our community ensures every student learns at the highest level.
HMS/FWA Vision Statement
HMS/FWA is a positive community where we value all people and help each other to become the best versions of ourselves.
Hortonville Middle School was moved from the current high school building to 220 Warner Street in 1994. Our school has a long history of earning state and national recognition. In 1995, HMS was distinguished as a National Blue Ribbon School. In 2008 and 2009, HMS earned the Association of Wisconsin School Administrators' Exemplary Middle School Award.
Additions to our school were completed in 2003 and 2014. HMS has a capacity of 600 students and currently serves over 550 students in fifth through eighth grades, including Fox West Academy. FWA, the district's only charter school, serves students in sixth through eighth grades and started as a unique project-based school in 2011. Families wishing to enroll their children in FWA are encouraged to meet with the charter school teachers. The enrollment window is February to April.
From a curriculum standpoint, HMS offers courses in reading, language, math, science, and social studies in addition to course offerings in German (grades 5-8), Spanish (grades 7-8), art, health (grades 6 and 8), physical education, and digital literacy (grades 5-8). HMS and FWA students also have a choice between taking band or chorus (grades 6-8), and fifth grade students either enroll in band and general music or just general music.
As a faculty, HMS is a Professional Learning Community. Teachers from our building collaborate weekly with colleagues at Greenville Middle School to ensure a guaranteed and viable curriculum each of the four years students are enrolled in middle school. HMS and GMS staff work incredibly hard to ensure that essential standards and learning targets are the same in both schools and that all children learn at the highest level before embarking upon their high school experience.
When students struggle in their classes, HMS and FWA teachers work with them during Extended Learning Time, which takes place daily from 1:10 to 1:40 P.M. We also use this time to work with students who need have already met learning targets and need challenges and enrichment opportunities beyond what they are currently learning in their classes.
The HMS and FWA faculty and staff are strongly focused on student relationships. We work hard to ensure that students feel comfortable with school on a social-emotional and academic level. Our school also has a School Intervention Team (SIT), which meets weekly to discuss students at the Tier III level. These are students who are in need of additional social-emotional support or are two or more grade levels behind academically. SIT collaborates with our interventionist and teachers to further ensure that we meet individual student needs.
As of 2018, HASD is the only district in the state of Wisconsin in partnership with the adolescent mental health clinics of the Fox Valley region. Together with agencies including Catalpa Health, Family Services, NAMI of the Fox Valley, and the United Way, we have formed a unique partnership called E3 – Engage, Educate, Empower because with a healthy mind, our students will soar to new academic, social, and emotional levels.
HMS has been a PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports) school since the fall of 2012. At our school, PBIS is known to the students as the Polar Bear Way. The premise of PBIS is to create a more positive school environment for students and staff by establishing clear expectations and taking active steps to teach, model, and reinforce appropriate school-wide behaviors. PBIS is a research and evidence-based framework that has been implemented in other schools throughout our district, state, and nation.