Summary:
The Northern Ozaukee School District in Wisconsin includes two elementary schools serving a combined 444 students: Ozaukee Elementary, a PK–5 school with 344 students in Fredonia, and Sugar Maple Nature School, a K–7 school with 100 students in Saukville. The district overall ranks 159 of 432 in the state, at the 63rd percentile with 3 stars.
Sugar Maple Nature School is the standout of the two, earning 4 stars in each of the last three years and ranking at the 85th, 83rd, and 76th percentiles from 2023–24 through 2025–26. It also has lower chronic absenteeism — 8.2% versus 12.3% at Ozaukee Elementary — and higher average proficiency in both reported test-score years, at 75.5% versus 63.8% overall in 2025–26. Both schools stay below the state's 17.3% absenteeism rate, but only Sugar Maple beats the district's 10.8%; Ozaukee Elementary sits above it. Ozaukee's star ratings have moved between 3 and 4 stars across those years.
Spending is nearly identical — $12,427 per student at Ozaukee versus $12,375 at Sugar Maple — so funding does not appear to explain the performance gap. Notably, Sugar Maple has the higher student-teacher ratio, 20.0 compared with 13.5, while posting stronger results. Ozaukee's math is a relative weak spot in 2025–26: 3rd grade at 49.09% and 4th grade at 47.73% both fell below state figures, though 5th grade math reached 70%. Ozaukee shows real strengths in 5th grade ELA (73.33%), social studies (79.55%), and science (70.45%). Sugar Maple's grade-level results vary widely — 3rd grade ELA was 42.11% while 4th grade ELA was 91.67% and 7th grade ELA was 100% — and with only 100 students, small grade cohorts make percentages swing sharply. Sugar Maple's free/reduced lunch rate is not provided, so that economic comparison cannot be made; it should be treated as unknown rather than as zero.
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