Amy Belle Elementary

Amy Belle Elementary is a PK–5 school with 356 students in Colgate, Wisconsin, one of four elementary schools in the Germantown School District, serving a small suburban-rural community northwest of Milwaukee. It currently ranks 65th of 1,039 Wisconsin elementary schools — the 94th percentile, or 5 stars — the best placement in its ten-year record, up from 109th last year, 250th two years ago, and a decade-low 356th in 2016-17.

Test performance is well above both district and state averages. Across eight Forward Exam measures, about 79% of students were proficient versus roughly 55% statewide. Math is the signature strength: all three grades fall between 78% and 83% proficient, roughly 25–28 points above the state in each. Social Studies (90.6%) is the highest figure reported, and Science has climbed 19 points over three years to 78.1%. Grade 5 ELA (77.5%) is the only measure below its district counterpart, though it still sits 24 points above the state. Chronic absenteeism, at 3.2%, is less than half the district rate (7.5%) and about one-fifth of the state rate (17.3%) — only County Line Elementary (2.3%) is lower nearby, while MacArthur Elementary (7.4%) is more than double.

Subgroup results have improved across every population the state reports; special education students moved from the 37th percentile two years ago to the 94th, and low-income students from the 57th to the 92nd. That progress came while poverty edged up, pointing to practice rather than demographics. Amy Belle also spends efficiently: $13,273 per student, the third-lowest among ten comparison schools and far below Lannon Elementary and Valley View Elementary. Its 94th percentile ranks just behind the Hamilton School District schools — Lannon Elementary, Woodside Elementary, and Maple Avenue Elementary — and level with County Line, while clearly ahead of MacArthur, Rockfield Elementary, and Riverside Elementary.