English Language Arts
7.5%
State avg 53.1%
District avg 25.3%
County avg 40.0%
-7.0pp since 2023-24
District avg 25.3%
County avg 40.0%
-7.0pp since 2023-24
Test scores
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Forward Exam, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Meeting or Advanced.Mathematics
14.5%
State avg 54.8%
District avg 22.3%
County avg 38.4%
+2.3pp since 2023-24
District avg 22.3%
County avg 38.4%
+2.3pp since 2023-24
Science
11.1%
State avg 50.8%
District avg 22.2%
County avg 35.3%
District avg 22.2%
County avg 35.3%
Social Studies
18.5%
State avg 57.0%
District avg 29.5%
County avg 42.6%
+0.0pp since 2023-24
District avg 29.5%
County avg 42.6%
+0.0pp since 2023-24
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 8 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 15 of 100 do math at grade level, about 11 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 19 of 100 are at grade level in social studies. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53, 55, 51, and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points and social studies scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
13.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.8%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
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.| Grade | English Language Arts | Mathematics | Science | Social Studies | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | |
| Grade 3 | 10.7% | 52.6% | 28 | 17.9% | 55.9% | 28 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Grade 4 | 3.7% | 52.5% | 27 | 11.1% | 55.0% | 27 | 11.1% | 51.3% | 27 | 18.5% | 64.0% | 27 |
| Grade 5 | 8.0% | 51.6% | 25 | N/A | 53.7% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
2-year history
All grades, all students. Emerson Wisconsin avgEnglish Language Arts
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 7.5% | 25.3% | 40.0% | 53.1% |
| SY 2023-24 | 14.5% | 25.1% | 39.6% | 52.8% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 14.5% | 22.3% | 38.4% | 54.8% |
| SY 2023-24 | 12.2% | 22.4% | 38.4% | 55.4% |
Science
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 11.1% | 22.2% | 35.3% | 50.8% |
| SY 2023-24 | N/A | 22.5% | 36.2% | 51.7% |
Social Studies
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 18.5% | 29.5% | 42.6% | 57.0% |
| SY 2023-24 | 18.5% | 28.7% | 41.7% | 55.4% |
How to read these scores
What is Forward Exam?
Forward Exam is the statewide standardized test administered by Wisconsin public schools.
What does "% Meeting or Advanced" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 7.5% mean for English Language Arts at Emerson Elementary?
It means about 7.5 percent of students tested at Emerson Elementary performed at grade level or above on the Forward Exam English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Wisconsin that year was 53.1%. 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 Wisconsin, 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?
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Wisconsin Forward Exam. School-level All Students subgroup from the WISEdash Download Files. Headline metric is the cumulative "Meeting + Advanced" rate (top 2 of 4 Forward performance levels: Developing / Approaching / Meeting / Advanced).
How often is it updated?
Forward Exam 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.