The top reported proficiency rate is 66% in Math. The lowest is 47% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Pewaukee Lake Elementary
Pewaukee Lake Elementary serves students from pre-kindergarten through second grade, which shapes nearly everything about what a family can expect from the school. Because it covers only the earliest grades, there are no state assessment results beyond the third-grade results that are available for a single past year, and there is no graduation rate to report. The school is part of the Pewaukee School District, and the four schools in the district sit together on one campus, with this elementary building joined by Horizon Elementary, Asa Clark Middle School, and Pewaukee High School.
The student body is large for a primary school. The enrollment is predominantly white, with an Asian share that is modest and a smaller share of students who are Hispanic. Students who identify as two or more races make up a small portion, and the Black student population is very small. A relatively low share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places the school in a more economically advantaged context compared with many public schools in the state. Data on the share of students with individualized education programs and the share who are English learners was not available, so a family with a child in either category may want to ask the school about its support resources directly.
Academic results are available from a single year of third-grade state testing, which is the first year Wisconsin administers its Forward assessment. In math, a clear majority of third graders met the proficiency bar. In English language arts, fewer than half did. Because the school serves only pre-kindergarten through second grade, the third-grade results reflect students who have moved beyond the school into a different building, but the results are the only testing data linked to the school's identifier. A parent considering the school will want to look at how the district's primary-grade reading and math instruction builds toward those results, and may want to ask the school about its early literacy approach specifically. The school's overall proficiency index across tested subjects placed it in the bottom quartile relative to other schools in Waukesha County, though it is worth noting that many comparison schools serve older students tested across more grades, so the single-grade snapshot is a narrow basis for that comparison.
Pewaukee itself is a community that blends residential neighborhoods, commercial corridors, and corporate parks. The City of Pewaukee surrounds the separately governed Village of Pewaukee, and both sit in the Lake Country region of Waukesha County west of Milwaukee. The village has a lakefront downtown with dining and seasonal festivals, while the broader city includes corporate headquarters, manufacturers, and the main campus of Waukesha County Technical College. Pewaukee Lake is the central natural feature. Major employers include Harken, a sailboat and yacht gear manufacturer with its world headquarters here, and Waukesha County Technical College. The housing market in the area reflects a market with home values well above the state benchmark and above the national benchmark, and the median listing price for the county is high relative to national averages. Renters will find monthly costs that are moderate relative to incomes, but the overall market is expensive enough that home affordability is a notable factor for families looking to move into the district.
The district itself has seen no major parent-relevant changes in recent years beyond a shift in the high school's athletic conference: the football team moved from the Woodland Conference to the Classic 8 Conference starting in the 2024-25 school year. There is no record of a recent referendum, property-tax shift, or district-wide curriculum change that would reshape the experience for incoming families. For a family with a very young child, Pewaukee Lake Elementary offers a large, economically advantaged primary school in a district that keeps all its buildings on one campus, set in a community with a strong local economy, a lake-centered identity, and housing costs that reflect the area's desirability. The testing results from third grade are mixed, and because the school stops at second grade, any family looking for assurance about the later primary years will need to look at the district's Horizon Elementary, which serves the upper elementary grades, to see how the full progression works.
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