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Test scores

Forward Exam, SY 2023-24

All grades, all students. % Meeting or Advanced.
English Language Arts
66.7%
State avg 52.8%
District avg 42.1%
County avg 52.3%
Mathematics
42.9%
State avg 55.4%
District avg 27.9%
County avg 48.8%
Science
66.7%
State avg 51.7%
District avg 38.3%
County avg 51.9%
Social Studies
100.0%
State avg 55.4%
District avg 43.3%
County avg 55.5%

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
66.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.3%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.8pp
above demographic expectation
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 2023-24

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScienceSocial Studies
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 683.3%54.5%666.7%54.9%6N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 744.4%51.9%922.2%54.4%9N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 883.3%50.2%650.0%54.0%666.7%49.8%6100.0%60.9%6

1-year history

All grades, all students. NorthStar Community Charter   Wisconsin avg

English Language Arts

53672023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2466.7%42.1%52.3%52.8%

Mathematics

55432023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2442.9%27.9%48.8%55.4%

Science

52672023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2466.7%38.3%51.9%51.7%

Social Studies

551002023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-24100.0%43.3%55.5%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 66.7% mean for English Language Arts at NorthStar Community Charter School?
It means about 66.7 percent of students tested at NorthStar Community Charter School performed at grade level or above on the Forward Exam English Language Arts test in 2023-24. The statewide average for Wisconsin that year was 52.8%. 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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