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Harborside Academy · Kenosha, WI
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Forward Exam, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Meeting or Advanced.
English Language Arts
54.5%
State avg 53.1%
District avg 43.9%
County avg 48.7%
+3.0pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
45.9%
State avg 54.8%
District avg 43.0%
County avg 48.0%
+0.3pp since 2023-24
Science
48.1%
State avg 50.8%
District avg 39.5%
County avg 44.8%
+2.8pp since 2023-24
Social Studies
56.5%
State avg 57.0%
District avg 47.2%
County avg 51.2%
+6.5pp since 2023-24

What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 46 of 100 do math at grade level, about 48 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 57 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 up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady, science scores are up about 3 points, and social studies scores are up about 7 points.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
49.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.1%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.7pp
above demographic expectation

What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScienceSocial Studies
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 651.2%53.9%8442.9%53.9%84N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 753.1%53.8%8154.3%56.1%81N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 859.7%54.0%7740.3%53.9%7748.1%50.4%7757.1%62.4%77
Grade 10N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A55.9%45.6%68

2-year history

All grades, all students. Harborside Academy   Wisconsin avg

English Language Arts

53522023-2453552024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2554.5%43.9%48.7%53.1%
SY 2023-2451.5%44.4%49.2%52.8%

Mathematics

55462023-2455462024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2545.9%43.0%48.0%54.8%
SY 2023-2445.6%43.8%49.0%55.4%

Science

52452023-2451482024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2548.1%39.5%44.8%50.8%
SY 2023-2445.3%41.0%45.9%51.7%

Social Studies

55502023-2457572024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2556.5%47.2%51.2%57.0%
SY 2023-2450.0%47.2%51.5%55.4%

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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 54.5% mean for English Language Arts at Harborside Academy?
It means about 54.5 percent of students tested at Harborside Academy 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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