Summary:
Elementary schools in the Port Washington-Saukville School District — Dunwiddie Elementary, Saukville Elementary, and Lincoln Elementary — serve grades PK–4 in Port Washington and Saukville, Wisconsin, and enroll 929 students combined in a Port Washington-Saukville School District that ranks 51st of 432 Wisconsin districts (88th percentile). The three schools are almost identical in size (324, 303, and 302 students), so no school is advantaged by scale. Across two years of Forward Exam results, every school beat the state in every subject-grade area — all 36 comparisons — and all three keep chronic absenteeism far below the state's 17.3%.
Dunwiddie is the academic flagship, ranked #74 of 1,039 state elementary schools in 2025-26 (93rd percentile, 5 stars) and holding the top spot in five of six subject areas that year, including the highest score in the data set: 88.14% proficient in 4th grade Social Studies, 22.6 points above the state. Saukville is the fastest riser, climbing three straight years from #445 to #217 (58th to 79th percentile), powered by standout 3rd grade results of 81.97% in ELA and 78.69% in Math. Lincoln, the district's top-ranked school in 2023-24, has slipped two years running to #198 (81st percentile), though it still has the lowest absenteeism (4.5%) and solid 4th grade results.
Several patterns are worth noting for parents. Spending and class size don't line up with achievement: Saukville spends the most ($15,400) with the smallest classes (12.5 ratio) yet trails Dunwiddie on every measure. Dunwiddie also has the district's highest free/reduced lunch rate (32.72%) while posting the best scores, so the usual economic correlation doesn't hold here. Saukville's 3rd and 4th grades tell different stories, and Science shows the widest school-to-school gap (27.36 points). Because each tested grade is only a few dozen students, year-over-year swings of 10–18 points can reflect small-cohort noise — the three-year rank trends are the more reliable signal.
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