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Richland Center High · Richland Center, WI
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Forward Exam, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Meeting or Advanced.
English Language Arts
44.8%
State avg 53.1%
District avg 43.3%
County avg 42.9%
+14.4pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
42.4%
State avg 54.8%
District avg 38.8%
County avg 40.5%
-1.1pp since 2023-24
Science
49.2%
State avg 50.8%
District avg 56.1%
County avg 50.0%
+6.5pp since 2023-24
Social Studies
49.0%
State avg 57.0%
District avg 52.1%
County avg 51.5%
-7.5pp since 2023-24

What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 42 of 100 do math at grade level, about 49 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 49 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 are up about 14 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points, science scores are up about 7 points, and social studies scores are down about 8 points.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
44.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.2%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.3pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 753.1%53.8%6448.4%56.1%64N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 836.1%54.0%6136.1%53.9%6149.2%50.4%6157.4%62.4%61
Grade 10N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A43.2%45.6%88

2-year history

All grades, all students. Richland Center   Wisconsin avg

English Language Arts

53302023-2453452024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2544.8%43.3%42.9%53.1%
SY 2023-2430.4%42.1%41.2%52.8%

Mathematics

55442023-2455422024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2542.4%38.8%40.5%54.8%
SY 2023-2443.5%47.3%46.6%55.4%

Science

52432023-2451492024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2549.2%56.1%50.0%50.8%
SY 2023-2442.7%49.0%49.2%51.7%

Social Studies

55572023-2457492024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2549.0%52.1%51.5%57.0%
SY 2023-2456.5%56.4%54.7%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 44.8% mean for English Language Arts at Richland Center High?
It means about 44.8 percent of students tested at Richland Center 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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