File photo of a classroom in the newly-remodeled Clintonville Elementary School on Oct. 12, 2023. PC: Fox 11 Online
(WTAQ-WLUK) — Neenah, Fond du Lac and Oshkosh school districts are exceeding expectations in latest state school report cards.
The DPI publishes school and district report cards annually, as required by Wis. Stat. 115.385.
The report cards evaluate schools and districts across four priority areas: Achievement, Growth, Target Group Outcomes, and On-Track to Graduation. Each school or district receives an overall accountability score, which places it into one of five rating categories: Significantly Exceeds Expectations (five stars), Exceeds Expectations (four stars), Meets Expectations (three stars), Meets Few Expectations (two stars), and Fails to Meet Expectations (one star).
Achievement and Growth measures are weighted according to each district or school’s percentage of economically disadvantaged students, per state law. Each report card uses multiple years of data with recent years weighted more heavily.
Over the summer, a group of 26 education leaders convened in a public meeting to review data and discuss updates to the performance benchmarks used for determining overall accountability ratings. The group’s recommendations were adopted by the state superintendent, following a 25-1 vote in support. Because of these updates, overall accountability scores for 2024-25 cannot be directly compared to prior years, though the underlying data remain comparable. These report cards establish a new baseline for measuring school and district performance.
- Public districts: Of the 378 public school districts receiving report cards, 355 (94%) met, exceeded, or significantly exceeded expectations. District report cards are not produced for districts representing a single school; in these cases, only a school report card is issued.
- Public schools: The DPI produced 1,920 scored public school report cards. Of those, 1,625 (85%) met, exceeded, or significantly exceeded expectations. An additional 141 schools received alternate accountability ratings due to limited data.
- Private Choice schools: Among the 436 private schools participating in a Private School Choice Program, 161 (85% of scored Choice report cards) met, exceeded, or significantly exceeded expectations. Fifty-seven percent (247 schools) were not scored due to insufficient data — typically because of small student populations or low test participation rates among Choice students.
Some Northeast Wisconsin school districts:
Exceeds expectations
- Neenah 72.8
- Fond du Lac 72.6
- Oshkosh 71.3
Meets expectations
- Appleton 67.3
- Green Bay 61.4
Meets few expectations
- Manitowoc 56.5
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