Report Card Resources

Resources for 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.

Communication & Interpretive Resources

• School Board Presentation Template (NEW) - optional slides that schools and districts can use for communicating report card background and results to school boards.

• 2024-25 School and District Report Cards - Communicating with Your Community - resource for helping to communicate this year’s report cards effectively with your community.

• What's New for the 2024-25 Report Cards - changes to 2024-25 report cards.

• 2024-25 Scoring Updates - outlines the scoring updates that will take effect for the 2024-25 school and district report cards.

• Report Cards At-a-Glance , Spanish, Hmong - high-level overview of the report card front page.

• Report Card Guide - overview of the report cards.

• Local Report Card - optional template that schools and districts can use to create their own local report card alongside the DPI report card.

• Parent Letter Templates - optional templates that schools and districts can use for communicating report card results to parents.

  • Letter – Generic, Spanish. Hmong

  • Letter – Choice Schools, Spanish, Hmong

  • Letter – Alternate Accountability , Spanish, Hmong

• Target Group Outcomes Guide - overview of the Target Group Outcomes 

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• Value-Added Growth Guide - a good starting point to build an understanding of the value-added growth methodology used in the report cards.

Technical & Data Resources

• Report Card Weighting Calculator - interactive application for calculating the priority area weights used to produce report card overall scores.

• Data At-a-Glance - high-level overview of the data used in report cards.

• Course and Program Data Guide - overview of the course and program data included in the report cards.

• Secure Release Checklist - checklist to help schools and districts check their preliminary report card data during the secure release.

• Guide to Correctable Data - overview of data corrections and the impact on different types of accountability reports.

• Calculating Percent Choice Enrollment - description of the Percent Choice Enrollment statistic found in Choice school report cards.

• State and Local Law Violation Reporting Requirements - overview of specific types of state and local law violations data that are reported to DPI and included on report cards. 

• Report Card Technical Guide  - comprehensive technical descriptions and walkthroughs for calculating the scores used in the report cards.

• Value-Added Technical Report - comprehensive technical descriptions of the value-added growth calculations used in the report cards.

WISEdash

For performance data beyond the report cards, the Wisconsin Information System for Education Data Dashboard (WISEdash) data portal uses "dashboards," or visual collections of graphs and tables, to provide multi-year education data about Wisconsin schools.

• WISEdash Public Portal - Available to the general public, student data is redacted to protect students' identities.
• WISEdash for Districts - Available to authorized district and school staff via a secure login. Data is available down to the individual student level.

Accountability Trainers

Each CESA and each of the six largest districts have identified at least one Accountability Trainer who can assist schools and districts with accountability questions, interpretation and troubleshoot data issues related to the report cards.
Accountability Trainers by CESA and District

For resources related to Wisconsin’s federal ESSA accountability system, please visit the OEA Federal Accountability (ESSA) page.