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John Muir Middle · Wausau, WI
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Forward Exam, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Meeting or Advanced.
English Language Arts
53.5%
State avg 53.1%
District avg 51.7%
County avg 53.7%
-0.4pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
54.3%
State avg 54.8%
District avg 52.3%
County avg 58.3%
-3.2pp since 2023-24
Science
48.0%
State avg 50.8%
District avg 50.8%
County avg 53.0%
-14.2pp since 2023-24
Social Studies
61.5%
State avg 57.0%
District avg 56.7%
County avg 60.1%
-0.4pp since 2023-24

What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 54 of 100 do math at grade level, about 48 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 62 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 have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points, science scores are down about 14 points, and social studies scores have held steady.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
56.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.1%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.0pp
above demographic expectation

What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 653.9%53.9%29755.6%53.9%297N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 756.3%53.8%29360.1%56.1%293N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 850.8%54.0%32748.0%53.9%32748.0%50.4%32761.5%62.4%327

2-year history

All grades, all students. John Muir   Wisconsin avg

English Language Arts

53542023-2453542024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2553.5%51.7%53.7%53.1%
SY 2023-2453.9%53.0%56.6%52.8%

Mathematics

55582023-2455542024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2554.3%52.3%58.3%54.8%
SY 2023-2457.5%55.8%61.7%55.4%

Science

52622023-2451482024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2548.0%50.8%53.0%50.8%
SY 2023-2462.2%51.9%54.6%51.7%

Social Studies

55622023-2457622024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2561.5%56.7%60.1%57.0%
SY 2023-2461.9%53.7%56.9%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 53.5% mean for English Language Arts at John Muir Middle?
It means about 53.5 percent of students tested at John Muir Middle 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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