WISEdash

Tools for Accountability and Improved School Outcomes

WISEdash: Wisconsin Information System for Education Data Dashboard

WISEdash is a data portal that uses "dashboards," or visual collections of graphs and tables, to provide multi-year education data about Wisconsin schools.

Each year, all Wisconsin public school districts and Choice private schools collect data about their students, staff, and courses based on federal and state requirements for their local education agency (LEA) type.

These schools and districts submit their data sets to the Department of Public Instruction.  The data is pushed from the LEAs’ student information systems (SIS) to WISEdata. WISEdata “validates,” or checks the data for mistakes, and LEAs can correct their data in their SIS to resolve these validation errors and warnings. Data that appears in WISEdata Portal ‘today’ will display in WISEdash ‘tomorrow’.

Twice each school year, DPI collects a static set of data. This is what we refer to as a snapshot. Snapshot data is considered final and certified. This snapshot data is displayed in WISEdash. WISEdash users can group and filter the data by a variety of demographics including grade level, gender, race/ethnicity, economic status, disability, English proficiency, and more. This data is displayed on two platforms of WISEdash, for two different audiences, with two distinct purposes.

There are Two Different WISEdash Portals