Oshkosh & Appleton Schools get state report cards

OSHKOSH, WI—(WISS)— The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction released the 2024-2025 school and district report cards this month. The report cards are required by law to evaluate schools and districts across four priority areas every year. Those four areas are Achievement, Growth, Target Group Outcomes, and On-Track to Graduation. 

State report cards serve as an accountability system for schools and districts. Each school or district receives an overall accountability score, placing it in one of five rating categories: Significantly Exceeds Expectations, Exceeds Expectations, Meets Expectations, Meets Few Expectations, and Fails to Meet Expectations.

District Report Cards

The Oshkosh Area School District’s (OASD) score is 71.3, or Exceeds Expectations.  All Oshkosh Area Schools except three scored Meets Expectations or higher. Those that scored as Meets Few Expectations were Vel Phillips Middle School, Roosevelt Elementary, and Jefferson Elementary.

The Appleton Area School District (AASD) scored a 67.3, or meets expectations. Two schools in the AASD received a Meets Few Expectations rating. Those schools were Madison Middle School and Wilson Middle School. The DPI scored one school, Columbus Elementary, a 35.6 and Failed to Meet Expectations. The Omolade Academy received an alternate rating of “Satisfactory Progress.”

Each school receives a report card that measures its results on the Wisconsin Forward Exam, along with attendance rate, graduation rate, and performance on the Pre-ACT and the ACT for high schools. 

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. 

Achievement and Growth measures are weighted according to each district or school’s percentage of economically disadvantaged students, as required by 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.