District accountability report cards, local districts graded

WISCONSIN (CIVIC MEDIA) – The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction has released the 2024-25 school and district accountability report cards.

Produced annually as required by state law, 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)
• Fails to Meet Expectations (one star)

Of the 378 public school districts receiving report cards, 355 met, exceeded, or significantly exceeded expectations. The DPI produced 1,920 scored public school report cards. Of those, 1,625 met, exceeded, or significantly exceeded expectations. An additional 141 schools received alternate accountability ratings due to limited data.

Local report cards

For school districts, the Ithaca School District scored 63.8, meeting expectations; the Richland School District scored 73.4, exceeding expectations; the River Valley School District scored 74.6 to exceed expectations; and the Riverdale School District scored 65.1 to meet expectations.

For public schools, Ithaca Elementary School exceeds expectations with a score of 77, the middle school meets expectations with a score of 61.7, and the high school meets few expectations with a score of 57.6. The Richland Center Intermediate School and High School both exceed expectations. The Intermediate School scored 74.6 and the high school scored 73.3. The Richland Center Primary School, Online Academy, and PARTNER Charter School all received an alternate rating of satisfactory progress due to insufficient data, often because of small size or limited grade range.

The River Valley Elementary School and high school met expectations. The elementary school has a score of 60.2 and the high school 64.9; the middle school significantly exceeds expectations with a score of 88.1. The Riverdale Elementary, Junior High, and High school all meet expectations with scores of 64.6, 61.2, and 66.3 respectively. The Riverdale Academy received an alternate rating of satisfactory progress.  

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. Due to updates, overall accountability scores for 2024-25 cannot be directly compared to prior years, though the underlying data remain comparable.

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