Original Research by School Decision on Ozaukee High
Ozaukee High serves about a hundred students across grades nine through twelve in the village of Fredonia, within the Northern Ozaukee School District. It is a small regular public high school, one of three district schools on a shared campus. The setting is rural-suburban: Fredonia is a slow-growing village with an industrial park, some new home development, and working agricultural land around it. The high school sits on its own campus near the village core.
The student body at Ozaukee High is predominantly white, with a modest share of Hispanic students and very small numbers from other racial and ethnic groups. About a fifth of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a share that points to a degree of economic diversity but tilts toward the more affluent side of the spectrum for a public school. Information on students with disabilities and English learners was not reported, so a parent who needs those figures should ask the school directly.
State testing data was not available for this school. Whether because of small cohort sizes, grade-band testing schedules, or other factors, the usual academic metrics that anchor a school profile are absent here. A parent trying to gauge academic performance will need to rely on other sources, such as conversations with the school or district, course offerings, and the feel of the classroom environment. The lack of testing data does not indicate a weak school, but it does mean a family should seek out the school's own reporting on student outcomes.
The comparison set that would place Ozaukee High among districts in Ozaukee County could not be populated with its proficiency index, graduation rate, or chronic absenteeism rate, because those values were missing. This makes it impossible to say how the school stacks up against neighbors like Port Washington-Saukville or Grafton on those standard measures. Again, a parent may want to ask the school directly for its own internal data.
The village of Fredonia itself is a low-density place where a car is essentially required for daily life. Public transit exists as a pre-scheduled county taxi service. Housing values in the zip code are above the national benchmark, with a typical home costing a figure in the mid-to-high range relative to the country as a whole, and rents are moderately high compared to incomes. The village has an industrial park that hosts employers like a wet-wipe manufacturer, a cheese maker, and a paperboard mill; the school district is itself one of the largest employers. The area is growing very slowly, with new housing developments appearing but no rapid expansion.
For a family considering this school, the district itself recently made a notable financial choice. Voters approved a five-year recurring referendum in 2024 that allows the district to exceed state revenue limits by a substantial annual sum for operations through 2028-29. That has a meaningful impact on local property taxes, but it also stabilizes funding for the high school and its feeder schools. Separately, the district opened a nature-based charter elementary school in 2023, offering an alternative pedagogy within the district's portfolio.
Ozaukee High is a small, community-rooted high school in a village that blends rural character with light industry. Without state testing data or comparative academic metrics, its strongest signal is its size: a small enrollment means smaller class sizes, close student-to-teacher relationships, and a family-like atmosphere that many parents seek. Families who want to dig into academic performance will need to do that directly with the school, because the public record does not supply it. For those who value a tight-knit setting in a slow-growing, relatively affordable rural-suburban village, Ozaukee High is a plausible fit whose academic reputation will be best evaluated in person.
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