State Report Card
WI DPI Accountability School Report Card
The State of Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction uses a comprehensive accountability index system to share information with the public about Wisconsin’s schools. Accountability determinations (the index score and rating) are reported annually in the School Report Card. For more information about State Report Cards, please visit Wisconsin DPI’s Accountability page.
2024-25 State School Report Card Information
2023-24 State School Report Card Information
2022-23 State School Report Card Information
2021-22 State School Report Card Information
2020-21 State School Report Card Information
2019-20 State School Report Card Information
No report cards were issued due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2019 State School Report Card Information
Four Priority Areas for Accountability
Achievement: The purpose of this priority area is to show how the knowledge and skills of students in the district or school compares to state academic standards. This priority area summarizes English language arts (ELA) and mathematics performance for all students in grades 3 through 11. This includes students taking the Forward, ACT Aspire/Pre-ACT Secure, ACT with writing, and DLM exams in the Wisconsin Student Assessment System (WSAS). The score is based on how student outcomes distribute across the four WSAS performance levels (advanced, meeting, approaching, developing), and it takes up to three years of test data into account.
Growth: The purpose of this priority area is to give schools and districts a single measure that summarizes how rapidly their students are gaining knowledge and skills from year to year. In contrast to Achievement, which is based on the levels of performance students attain in a given year, the Growth priority area measures changes in students’ performance over time. In particular, this priority area focuses on the pace of improvement in students’ performance in a school or district compared to the growth of similar students across the state. This priority area rewards schools and districts for helping students improve performance, regardless of a student’s prior achievement, by measuring student progress across assessments over time.
Target Group Outcomes: Target Group Outcomes is a priority area that examines multiple measures for students in the bottom quartile (25%) of performance based on the prior year’s test results, along with any students who scored less than proficient on the prior year’s DLM alternate assessment. This priority area is designed to inform improvement efforts, resulting in positive change for learners who most need it while also improving outcomes for all students. It replaced the “Closing Gaps” priority area. The target group is determined by prior performance rather than demographic association. It is roughly the bottom quartile of performers using the prior year’s state assessment results,
On-Track to Graduation: The purpose of this priority area is to indicate of how successful students are at achieving educational milestones that lead to postsecondary readiness. This priority area has three components. The first component is chronic absenteeism: 100 minus the rate of students who are chronically absent. The second is either a graduation rate—for schools that graduate students (i.e., high schools)—or an attendance rate for schools with no 12th grade or whose graduation cohort has fewer than 20 students. Chronic absenteeism, graduation, and attendance data are lagged by one year due to the timing of when the data become available for use. The final component is third grade ELA achievement, eighth grade mathematics achievement, or a combination of the two, depending on grade configuration and data availability. The scores for these components are included in a weighted average used to produce the On-Track to Graduation score. Scores for schools without a third or eighth grade will be based solely on chronic absenteeism and attendance or graduation.
*Information from DPI Regarding the 2024-25 Report Cards
These resources are specific to the 2024-25 school and district report cards, which are released in the Fall of 2025. The report card rating category score ranges have been updated for the 2024-25 school year and beyond. The new rating category score ranges are below:
The new score ranges are the result of a report card standard setting that occurred over the summer in which a representative group of more than two dozen education leaders provided recommendations on performance expectations for the state’s school and district report card accountability system. You can find more information about this process on the DPI Report Card Standard Setting page.
Careful review of the detailed report card data on all pages is encouraged. Multiple years of data are used throughout the report card in most of the priority area scores.
Report cards, including the weighting of the Achievement and Growth priority areas, are governed by Wis. Stat. 115.385. Please see the Report Card Weighting Calculator to learn more about how priority areas are re-weighted when data for a particular priority area are not available.
More information is available through the DPI at their “What’s New” and other report card resources on their website to learn more about this one year change.
Please see the Report Card Weighting Calculator to learn more about how priority areas are re-weighted when data for a particular priority area are not available.