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Test scores

River Forest Middle School · Hobart, IN
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ILEARN, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % At or Above Proficiency.
English Language Arts
24.1%
State avg 39.2%
District avg 21.0%
County avg 34.8%
Mathematics
11.2%
State avg 41.1%
District avg 15.8%
County avg 36.5%
Science
30.4%
State avg 41.5%
District avg 25.1%
County avg 37.0%
Social Studies
N/A
State avg 36.9%
District avg 12.0%
County avg 32.9%

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
20.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.2%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.9pp
below demographic expectation
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →

By grade, SY 2024-25

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScienceSocial Studies
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 628.4%39.3%11618.1%38.9%11630.4%41.2%115N/AN/AN/A
Grade 722.6%36.6%11511.2%34.9%116N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 821.4%41.2%1264.8%33.6%126N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A

1-year history

All grades, all students. River Forest   Indiana avg

English Language Arts

39242024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2524.1%21.0%34.8%39.2%

Mathematics

41112024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2511.2%15.8%36.5%41.1%

Science

41302024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2530.4%25.1%37.0%41.5%

How to read these scores

What is ILEARN?
Indiana public-school students in grades 3 through 8 take ILEARN each spring in English Language Arts and Math, plus Science (grades 4/6) and Social Studies (grade 5). High school students take ILEARN Biology as part of the state assessment system.
What does "% At or Above Proficiency" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school who scored at "At Proficiency" or "Above Proficiency" on ILEARN (top 2 of 4 performance levels: Below, Approaching, At, Above). At and above means the student is performing at or beyond grade-level expectations. A higher number is better.
What does 24.1% mean for English Language Arts at River Forest Middle School?
It means about 24.1 percent of students tested at River Forest Middle School performed at grade level or above on the ILEARN English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Indiana that year was 39.2%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Indiana, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Indiana Department of Education (IDOE), Indiana Learning Evaluation Assessment Readiness Network (ILEARN). School-level results published annually in Excel format on the IDOE Data Center. Headline metric is the cumulative "At Proficiency + Above Proficiency" rate (top 2 of 4 ILEARN performance levels).
How often is it updated?
ILEARN is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.

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