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Test scores

Forward Exam, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Meeting or Advanced.
English Language Arts
41.8%
State avg 53.1%
District avg 45.7%
County avg 50.6%
+3.3pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
32.7%
State avg 54.8%
District avg 43.1%
County avg 54.7%
+0.6pp since 2023-24
Science
22.2%
State avg 50.8%
District avg 42.7%
County avg 52.1%
-24.0pp since 2023-24
Social Studies
54.2%
State avg 57.0%
District avg 50.0%
County avg 58.6%
-4.1pp since 2023-24

What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 33 of 100 do math at grade level, about 22 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 54 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady, science scores are down about 24 points, and social studies scores are down about 4 points.

By grade, SY 2024-25

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScienceSocial Studies
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 356.3%52.6%1637.5%55.9%16N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 426.3%52.5%1926.3%55.0%1915.8%51.3%1936.8%64.0%19
Grade 533.3%51.6%2114.3%53.7%21N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 645.8%53.9%2441.7%53.9%24N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 753.8%53.8%1346.2%56.1%13N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 841.2%54.0%1735.3%53.9%1729.4%50.4%1758.8%62.4%17
Grade 10N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A75.0%45.6%12

2-year history

All grades, all students. WISE Academy   Wisconsin avg

English Language Arts

53392023-2453422024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2541.8%45.7%50.6%53.1%
SY 2023-2438.5%38.1%52.3%52.8%

Mathematics

55322023-2455332024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2532.7%43.1%54.7%54.8%
SY 2023-2432.1%36.5%56.2%55.4%

Science

52462023-2451222024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2522.2%42.7%52.1%50.8%
SY 2023-2446.2%43.7%52.2%51.7%

Social Studies

55582023-2457542024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2554.2%50.0%58.6%57.0%
SY 2023-2458.3%47.6%57.2%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 41.8% mean for English Language Arts at WISE Academy?
It means about 41.8 percent of students tested at WISE Academy 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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