Summary
Susie C Altmayer Elementary is a PK–4 school in De Pere, Wisconsin, serving 525 students in the De Pere School District, a high-performing district ranked 25th of 432 statewide. Altmayer has earned a 5-star rating in every recent year and has stayed in the top decile for a decade. In 2025–2026, it ranked 70th of 1,039 elementary schools, at the 93rd percentile; the prior year it ranked 43rd of 1,044, at the 96th percentile. It is the top-ranked school in its nearby comparison group, ahead of Heritage Elementary, Hemlock Creek Elementary, and Dickinson Elementary in each of the last three years.
Academically, Altmayer is strong in math, English language arts, and science. On the 2025–2026 Forward Exam, 3rd grade math reached 87.95% proficiency—33.20 points above the state—and 3rd grade ELA reached 81.93%, 29.85 points above the state. Fourth grade math and science were 76.92%, also well above state averages. Social studies was the relative soft spot: 79.49% is far above the state’s 65.51%, but below the district’s 82.84% and lower than Heritage Elementary, Dickinson Elementary, Hemlock Creek Elementary, Pioneer Elementary, and Westwood Elementary. Fourth grade ELA was above state but slightly below district. Chronic absenteeism is exceptionally low at 2.9% in 2024–2025, versus 6.6% district and 17.3% state; it has fallen from 7.3% in 2021–2022.
Altmayer serves a more economically mixed population than some high-performing peers: 24.19% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025, compared with 13.82% at Heritage Elementary and 13.75% at Hemlock Creek Elementary, but far less than Webster Elementary, Langlade Elementary, and Doty Elementary. It spends $13,376 per student with a 14.2 student–teacher ratio, far less than those three schools, which spend $18,000–$20,000 per student yet rank much lower. Subgroup outcomes are a major strength: students with disabilities ranked in the 97th percentile in 2025–2026, English language learners in the 95th percentile in 2024–2025, and low-income students in the 90th–94th percentile in recent years, up from the 57th percentile in 2023–2024. Overall, Altmayer combines moderate poverty, moderate spending, and consistently top-decile results.
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