These spots make up Lake View’s nature stations, which are part of the north-side Madison school’s outdoor education programming. With the help of volunteers and grant funding, Lake View’s five-acre campus has transformed over the last decade into a collection of vibrant outdoor learning spaces.
“Being able to provide learning spaces that exist beyond the four walls of the classroom was very important to the school community,” Principal Nkaujnou Vang-Vue said in an interview with the Cap Times. “It gets utilized every single day here at Lake View. If you come out — especially during the lunch recess time — every single nook and cranny of our outdoor space is being utilized by our students.”
Vang-Vue’s years of work on the school’s outdoor education playland led the Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education to name her the group’s 2026 Administrator of the Year.
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64.7% of Lakeview students student scored lower than 75% of the students in the national literacy comparison group.