White Rock School
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% 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%.
About White Rock School
White Rock School operates as a medium-sized elementary-level community in Waukesha, Wisconsin, overseen by Waukesha School District. Current enrollment sits at 286 students spanning grades pre-K through 8.
White Rock School is one of 27 schools operated by Waukesha School District, a district that caters to 10,922 students overall.
On the student-mix side, White Rock School logs that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 11% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 8% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, On paper, White Rock School has 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 381.3:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 12% of students at White Rock School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), White Rock School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.6%; this one delivers 75.0%.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Waukesha County indicate median household earnings sit near $106,076, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Waukesha County's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,032 students), White Rock School is one campus in the mix.
Waukesha East Alternative School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts White Rock School at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 43.1%.
The campus sits in a downtown setting.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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