N-Gage Academy
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 32 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 32 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% 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%.
About N-Gage Academy
N-Gage Academy operates as a micro-enrollment senior high in Necedah, Wisconsin, part of Necedah Area School District. Current enrollment sits at 32 students spanning grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 475 students each, so N-Gage Academy sits 93% smaller than that benchmark.
Necedah Area School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 662 students. N-Gage Academy is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, N-Gage Academy records that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, N-Gage Academy has 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 9% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Juneau County (around 41%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, N-Gage Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.9%, the actual is 58.5%, a residual of -13.4 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Juneau County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $67,270 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. N-Gage Academy is one of 24 public schools in Juneau County (combined enrollment of about 3,471 students).
N-Vision Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around N-Gage Academy. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), N-Gage Academy ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 38.2%.
Geographically, the school is in an outlying area. N-Gage Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
In the discussion threads here, members of the N-Gage Academy community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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