Summary
Great Lakes Elementary is a PK–5 public school in Superior, WI, serving 348 students in the Superior School District. It currently ranks 460th of 1,039 Wisconsin schools (56th percentile, 3 stars), above its district's 47th percentile. That is a large improvement over the mid-2010s, when it sat at the 35th–37th percentile, and it peaked at the 74th percentile with 4 stars in 2022–2023. Since then it has slipped each year. Among nearby schools, Four Corners Elementary (69th percentile), Cooper Elementary (66th), and Bryant Elementary (61st) rank higher, while Northern Lights Elementary (45th) ranks lower.
Reading is the school's standout strength. On the 2025–2026 Forward Exam, Great Lakes scored above both district and state in English language arts at every tested grade, with grade-level results of about 70% in grade 3, 65% in grade 4, and 70% in grade 5 — the highest average among the nearby schools reviewed. Math is a different story: grade 4 math was 41.18%, below district and state, and the lowest among nearby schools, with grades 3 and 5 also underperforming state averages. Fourth-grade science was 49.02%, below the district's 61.07% and below every nearby comparison school, making it the weakest subject relative to peers. Social studies came in at 66.67%, above state but below district.
Chronic absenteeism is still a relative bright spot at 11.5%, better than the district's 14.7% and the state's 17.3% — but it jumped from 4.9% the year before, and nearby Four Corners, Cooper, and Bryant all have lower rates. Students in special education and from low-income families rank above the state median (62nd and 61st percentile), though both have declined recently, as have most student groups. Great Lakes spends $15,296 per student with a 16.0 student-teacher ratio — less money and larger classes than most same-district peers, yet stronger reading results.
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