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Test scores

Gaylord A Nelson Educational Center · Clear Lake, WI
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Forward Exam, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Meeting or Advanced.
English Language Arts
43.0%
State avg 53.1%
District avg 49.8%
County avg 59.9%
-6.6pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
48.1%
State avg 54.8%
District avg 53.6%
County avg 63.4%
-13.4pp since 2023-24
Science
42.1%
State avg 50.8%
District avg 52.1%
County avg 59.6%
-15.5pp since 2023-24
Social Studies
60.5%
State avg 57.0%
District avg 58.1%
County avg 64.3%
-0.1pp since 2023-24

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
52.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.9%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.9pp
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 336.4%52.6%3327.3%55.9%33N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 436.8%52.5%3839.5%55.0%3842.1%51.3%3860.5%64.0%38
Grade 541.2%51.6%3455.9%53.7%34N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 660.0%53.9%3073.3%53.9%30N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A

2-year history

All grades, all students. Gaylord A Nelson Educational Center   Wisconsin avg

English Language Arts

53502023-2453432024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2543.0%49.8%59.9%53.1%
SY 2023-2449.6%52.2%61.7%52.8%

Mathematics

55622023-2455482024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2548.1%53.6%63.4%54.8%
SY 2023-2461.5%64.9%66.4%55.4%

Science

52582023-2451422024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2542.1%52.1%59.6%50.8%
SY 2023-2457.6%55.8%61.1%51.7%

Social Studies

55612023-2457612024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2560.5%58.1%64.3%57.0%
SY 2023-2460.6%53.9%62.4%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 43.0% mean for English Language Arts at Gaylord A Nelson Educational Center?
It means about 43.0 percent of students tested at Gaylord A Nelson Educational Center 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.

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