Summary:
ZIP code 54937 is home to two elementary schools, both in the North Fond du Lac School District: Friendship Learning Elementary, serving grades K–5 with 612 students, and Treffert Way for the Exceptional Mind, a small K–8 school with 60 students. The district ranks 396 out of 432 in Wisconsin — the 8th percentile with 0 stars — so both schools operate in a district near the bottom of the state ranking, though both improved in 2025–26.
Friendship Learning Elementary is the academic leader of the pair. Its 2025–26 rank is 709 of 1,039 (32nd percentile, 2 stars), up from the 23rd percentile the year before. Math is its relative strength: grades 3–5 average 52.5% proficient, essentially matching the state's 53.1%, and grade 3 math reaches 56.52%. It still trails the state in English Language Arts (44.9% vs 53.2%) and social studies (48.6% vs 65.5%), its largest gap at about 16.9 percentage points. Treffert Way for the Exceptional Mind posts much lower proficiency — a 41.7% overall simple average in 2025–26, up from 25.6% — but stands out for attendance and dropout: chronic absenteeism of 6.9% (district 10.7%, state 17.3%) and a 0.0% dropout rate.
Other differences matter too. Treffert Way for the Exceptional Mind spends $20,551 per student versus $13,140 at Friendship Learning Elementary — about 56% more — and enrolls a higher share of students eligible for free/reduced lunch (65% vs 51.47%). Because Treffert has only 60 students, its grade-level percentages can swing widely, so a 6th-grade math high of 60% or a 7th-grade low of 22.22% may reflect just a few students. Both schools improved from 2024–25 to 2025–26 (Friendship up 7.1 points, Treffert up 16.1), but the district also gained about 7.4 points, so gaps narrowed rather than closed.
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