TOMAHAWK – The School District of Tomahawk scored among the top districts in the area on the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI)’s annual accountability report cards.
The DPI last week released the 2024-25 school and district report cards. The reports cards are produced yearly by the DPI under state law.
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).
According to the DPI, 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,” DPI stated. “In these cases, only a school report card is issued.”
The DPI said it 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.
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. 47 schools (57%) were not scored due to insufficient data, typically because of small student populations or low test participation rates among Choice students, according to the DPI.
School and district report cards are available on the DPI’s website at www.apps6.dpi.wi.gov/reportcards/.
School District of Tomahawk data
According to DPI data, for the 2024-25 school year, the School District of Tomahawk received an overall score of 72.0, good for a four-star, Exceeds Expectations rating.
The score was among the highest in the area.
The report cards evaluate districts across four priority areas: Achievement, Growth, Target Group Outcomes and On-Track to Graduation.
The Achievement priority area summarizes how a district's students performed on state assessments using a points-based proficiency system that gives partial credit for Approaching performance and extra credit for Advanced performance. The DPI said the score is a multi-year average of English language arts and mathematics component scores.
Tomahawk’s Achievement score of 67.6 was the same as or higher than 51.1% of districts in the state, according to the DPI.
The Growth priority area measures year-to-year student progress on statewide tests. The DPI explained that it uses a value-added model that seeks to control for circumstances beyond the influence of educators.
“A high value-added score means that on average, students in the district are progressing more quickly than other, similar students,” the DPI stated.
Growth is scored from 0 to 100 to match the other priority areas and is a conversion from the roughly 0 to 6 value-added score.
Tomahawk’s Growth score of 67.0 was the same as or higher than 67.9% of Wisconsin districts.
The DPI said the Target Group Outcomes priority area examines outcomes for students with the lowest test scores – the target group.
“This measure was designed to inform improvement efforts that result in positive change for learners who most need it, while also improving outcomes for all students,” the DPI said. “The priority area score combines component scores for achievement, growth, chronic absenteeism and attendance or graduation rate. Data are not displayed when target groups have fewer than 20 students.”
According to DPI data, Tomahawk’s score of 65.1 in the Target Group Outcomes priority area was the same as or higher than 51.2% of districts in the state.
The On-Track to Graduation priority area indicates how successfully students are progressing toward completing their K-12 education. The DPI explained that the score combines component scores for measures of student engagement and achievement.
Tomahawk’s On-Track to Graduation score of 88.4 was the same as or higher than 58.4% of districts in the state, according to the DPI.
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