Woodlands School - State Street Campus
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 72% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
About Woodlands School - State Street Campus
Woodlands School - State Street Campus is a modestly sized K-5 school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Woodlands School Inc. The school serves 175 students in grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 323 students per school, that is 46% smaller than typical.
Woodlands School Inc runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 488 students. Woodlands School - State Street Campus is one of those campuses.
Demographically, Woodlands School - State Street Campus reports that Black students make up the majority at 68%. Other groups include 14% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, 3% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 26% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Woodlands School - State Street Campus lists 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. The state averages about 14.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 9% of students at Woodlands School - State Street Campus qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Milwaukee County's rate of about 64%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Woodlands School - State Street Campus sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 72.0%; actual is 16.6%, a gap of -55.4 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Milwaukee County indicate median household income runs about $64,435, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), Woodlands School - State Street Campus is one campus in the mix.
Pathways High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Woodlands School - State Street Campus. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Woodlands School - State Street Campus at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 16.3%.
Woodlands School - State Street Campus operates from a high-density location. As a public charter, Woodlands School - State Street Campus runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
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