Netherwood Knoll Elementary
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 84 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Netherwood Knoll Elementary
Netherwood Knoll Elementary is one of the medium-sized elementary-level communitys in Oregon, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Oregon School District, with 419 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Netherwood Knoll Elementary sits 30% bigger than that benchmark.
Netherwood Knoll Elementary is one of 8 schools operated by Oregon School District, a district that hosts 4,186 students overall.
Looking at the student body, Netherwood Knoll Elementary lists that nearly all students (90%) are White. The remainder consists of 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 13% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Dane County (around 32%), the school's rate is south of typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Netherwood Knoll Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.6%, the actual is 75.7%, a residual of +6.1 points.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Dane County indicate median household income runs about $89,975, roughly 55% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dane County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), of which Netherwood Knoll Elementary is one.
Nearest neighbor: Oregon 4K, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Netherwood Knoll Elementary. On composite proficiency, Netherwood Knoll Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 64.8%.
The school occupies a town-center site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 23%: 547 students in 2018 compared to 419 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.
On the community side, the feed for Netherwood Knoll Elementary typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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