English Language Arts
41.4%
State avg 53.1%
District avg 44.8%
County avg 54.2%
+2.0pp since 2023-24
District avg 44.8%
County avg 54.2%
+2.0pp since 2023-24
Test scores
See how it ranks: all Wisconsin schools by score · Sheboygan County schools by score
Forward Exam, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Meeting or Advanced.Mathematics
53.1%
State avg 54.8%
District avg 47.6%
County avg 57.4%
+2.8pp since 2023-24
District avg 47.6%
County avg 57.4%
+2.8pp since 2023-24
Science
42.6%
State avg 50.8%
District avg 40.1%
County avg 50.7%
-14.3pp since 2023-24
District avg 40.1%
County avg 50.7%
-14.3pp since 2023-24
Social Studies
51.9%
State avg 57.0%
District avg 46.1%
County avg 56.1%
-10.8pp since 2023-24
District avg 46.1%
County avg 56.1%
-10.8pp since 2023-24
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 53 of 100 do math at grade level, about 43 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 52 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points, science scores are down about 14 points, and social studies scores are down about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
48.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.9%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 32% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Wisconsin's top 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 | 35.7% | 52.6% | 56 | 42.9% | 55.9% | 56 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Grade 4 | 44.4% | 52.5% | 54 | 53.7% | 55.0% | 54 | 42.6% | 51.3% | 54 | 51.9% | 64.0% | 54 |
| Grade 5 | 44.2% | 51.6% | 52 | 63.5% | 53.7% | 52 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
2-year history
All grades, all students. James Madison Wisconsin avgEnglish Language Arts
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 41.4% | 44.8% | 54.2% | 53.1% |
| SY 2023-24 | 39.4% | 43.3% | 53.9% | 52.8% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 53.1% | 47.6% | 57.4% | 54.8% |
| SY 2023-24 | 50.3% | 47.3% | 57.9% | 55.4% |
Science
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 42.6% | 40.1% | 50.7% | 50.8% |
| SY 2023-24 | 56.9% | 39.4% | 51.7% | 51.7% |
Social Studies
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 51.9% | 46.1% | 56.1% | 57.0% |
| SY 2023-24 | 62.7% | 47.6% | 57.3% | 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 41.4% mean for English Language Arts at James Madison Elementary?
It means about 41.4 percent of students tested at James Madison 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.