Summary:
ZIP code 54235 covers Sturgeon Bay in Door County, Wisconsin, and contains two public high schools serving grades 9–12 — Sturgeon Bay High in the Sturgeon Bay School District and Sevastopol High in the Sevastopol School District — enrolling 557 students combined. Both operate as essentially stand-alone high schools within their small districts, and both perform well above the state average in nearly every measure.
Sevastopol High is the clear local leader: a 5-star rating, a district rank of 21st of 432 (top 5% statewide), and a ranking percentile that has climbed steadily from 82nd to 92nd over three years. Its 97.6% graduation rate beats the state's 92.0%, and in 2025-26 it led Wisconsin in all four tested subjects, including Science at 64.15% against a 43.2% state average — a 20.9-point gap and its widest advantage over its neighbor. Its only soft spot is English Language Arts, which fell 7.12 points year over year but still narrowly tops Sturgeon Bay High. Sevastopol spends more per student ($18,966 vs. $16,242) while serving a less economically disadvantaged population (25.84% vs. 35.34% free/reduced lunch).
Sturgeon Bay High is a solid 4-star school (147th of 533) with a 95.5% graduation rate and genuine momentum in reading and math — up 6.70 points in ELA and 6.78 in Math. Its weak point is Science at 40.86%, the only subject where either local school falls below the state average, and its ranking has been volatile (88th to 60th to 72nd percentile). Both schools face higher chronic absenteeism than the state (17.5% and 19.3% vs. 17.3%), and notably, the school with more absences posts the stronger test scores — so attendance does not explain the achievement gap here.
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