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Test scores

Forward Exam, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Meeting or Advanced.
English Language Arts
61.3%
State avg 53.1%
District avg 62.8%
County avg 46.4%
+6.1pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
45.2%
State avg 54.8%
District avg 45.1%
County avg 48.0%
+0.4pp since 2023-24
Science
75.0%
State avg 50.8%
District avg 65.7%
County avg 51.0%
+28.8pp since 2023-24
Social Studies
57.1%
State avg 57.0%
District avg 63.8%
County avg 53.8%
-4.8pp since 2023-24

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
54.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.0%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.7pp
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 2024-25

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScienceSocial Studies
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 760.0%53.8%1533.3%56.1%15N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 862.5%54.0%1656.3%53.9%1675.0%50.4%1675.0%62.4%16
Grade 10N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A33.3%45.6%12

2-year history

All grades, all students. Pembine   Wisconsin avg

English Language Arts

53552023-2453612024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2561.3%62.8%46.4%53.1%
SY 2023-2455.2%51.5%45.7%52.8%

Mathematics

55452023-2455452024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2545.2%45.1%48.0%54.8%
SY 2023-2444.8%44.5%47.9%55.4%

Science

52462023-2451752024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2575.0%65.7%51.0%50.8%
SY 2023-2446.2%64.7%46.1%51.7%

Social Studies

55622023-2457572024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2557.1%63.8%53.8%57.0%
SY 2023-2461.9%69.0%51.6%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 61.3% mean for English Language Arts at Pembine High?
It means about 61.3 percent of students tested at Pembine High 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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