Shorewood Hills, Wisconsin

Shorewood Hills is a village in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States.

[7] According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.80 square miles (2.07 km2), all of it land.

[8] The village is bounded on the east by the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus, on the south by University Avenue, on the west by the Indian Hills neighborhood of Madison and on the north by Lake Mendota.

Shorewood Hills main arterial road is University Avenue which connects Shorewood Hills to Downtown Madison to the east and the rest of the west side of Madison as well as Middleton to the west.

Shorewood Hills is connected to Madison's extensive bike path network.

The Wisconsin & Southern railroad passes through the village via the Prairie Subdivision.

This ranks the village 6th in the US in the "Average Education Index" (American Community Survey) among all cities with a population over 1,000, ahead of Stanford, CA and Chevy Chase, MD.

19.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

18.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

The First Unitarian Society Meeting House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and suggestive of hands held together in prayer, is in Shorewood Hills.

[10] The Radiation Center, the first private medical center to treat cancer patients with a betatron, was opened by Dr. O. Arthur Stiennon[11] in 1957[12] in Doctors' Park at 2716 Marshall Court.

In 1993, the facility was demolished and a Ronald McDonald House was erected on the site.

[13] Shorewood Hills Elementary School (SHES), located near the center of the village, serves students from kindergarten through fifth grade, with an enrollment of approximately 500.