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West High · Wauwatosa, WI
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Forward Exam, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Meeting or Advanced.
English Language Arts
N/A
State avg 53.1%
District avg 63.9%
County avg 40.0%
Mathematics
N/A
State avg 54.8%
District avg 62.9%
County avg 38.4%
Science
N/A
State avg 50.8%
District avg 64.7%
County avg 35.3%
Social Studies
45.8%
State avg 57.0%
District avg 69.2%
County avg 42.6%
-4.2pp since 2023-24

What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school are at grade level in social studies. The Wisconsin average is about 57 of 100. Social studies scores are down about 4 points since 2023.

Rank: West High places #192 of 402 Wisconsin high schools, and #8 of 40 in Milwaukee County for state test proficiency.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
47.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.5%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.6pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 10N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A45.8%45.6%212

2-year history

All grades, all students. West   Wisconsin avg

Social Studies

55502023-2457462024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2545.8%69.2%42.6%57.0%
SY 2023-2450.0%67.8%41.7%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.
How should I read a single score?
Each percent represents the share of tested students who performed at grade level or above. Compare the school number against the state, district, and county averages on this page to see whether it is above or below typical.
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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