Summary:
ZIP code 53217 — covering Whitefish Bay, Fox Point, and River Hills — is home to three public elementary schools in three separate districts: Richards Elementary (PK–5, 680 students), Stormonth Elementary (PK–4, 473 students), and Indian Hill School (PK–3, 223 students). All three earn five stars, and their districts — Whitefish Bay School District (#6 of 432), Fox Point J2 School District (#2), and Maple Dale-Indian Hill School District (#15) — sit in the top 3.5% of the state, an unusually dense cluster of high performers.
Each school's story is one of trajectory. Stormonth is the momentum leader: it improved on all six reported measures, posted the highest single ELA figure in the data set (93.18% in 3rd grade), and climbed to #9 of 1,039 statewide. Richards is the largest school, was ranked #5 of 1,061 in 2023-2024, and still holds the highest single math score in the data (92.16% in 4th grade math), but has slipped to #18 and declined on six of eight measures, including 5th grade ELA (−9.53 points). Indian Hill is the smallest and steadiest, with 3rd grade math roughly 32 points above the state.
For families comparing, the only fully apples-to-apples measure is 3rd grade, the one grade all three schools teach. Math there is nearly identical (88.03, 87.50, 86.36), while ELA separates them more (93.18 vs. 88.89 vs. 84.09). Chronic absenteeism is low across the board — 2.2%, 3.6%, and 4.5% against a 17.3% state rate. Per-pupil spending ranges from $11,358 at Richards to $18,971 at Indian Hill, and student-teacher ratios from 12.7 at Stormonth to 18.2 at Richards; higher spending does not track with higher proficiency in this ZIP code.
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