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Test scores

Forward Exam, SY 2023-24

All grades, all students. % Meeting or Advanced.
English Language Arts
31.1%
State avg 52.8%
District avg 44.4%
County avg 49.2%
Mathematics
28.3%
State avg 55.4%
District avg 43.8%
County avg 49.0%
Science
33.3%
State avg 51.7%
District avg 41.0%
County avg 45.9%
Social Studies
45.5%
State avg 55.4%
District avg 47.2%
County avg 51.5%

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
33.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.2%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.2pp
below 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 323.5%52.5%3429.4%57.7%34N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 436.4%53.7%3330.3%55.9%3333.3%53.7%3345.5%63.3%33
Grade 533.3%54.0%3925.6%55.4%39N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A

1-year history

All grades, all students. Vernon   Wisconsin avg

English Language Arts

53312023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2431.1%44.4%49.2%52.8%

Mathematics

55282023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2428.3%43.8%49.0%55.4%

Science

52332023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2433.3%41.0%45.9%51.7%

Social Studies

55462023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2445.5%47.2%51.5%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 31.1% mean for English Language Arts at Vernon Elementary?
It means about 31.1 percent of students tested at Vernon Elementary 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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