Assessment & Accountability

Student knowledge, skills, and abilities are measured through a variety of methods to better understand each student's academic progress, strengths and opportunities for growth and support.

Our balanced approach to assessment helps us monitor student growth and informs instructional practices and curricular decisions. Our assessment system includes classroom assessments, grade level and course common assessments, and statewide assessments.

Wisconsin School Report Cards

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) releases School Report Cards for every public school and school district in the state. The report cards provide data on multiple indicators

Use this link to learn more and to search the DPI report cards page: Wisconsin School Report Cards Page

2023-2024 Wisconsin School Report Cards

District

Fox River Middle School
Evergreen Elementary School
Trailside Elementary School
Woodfield Elementary School

Federal ESSA Accountability Reports

The Every Student Succeeds Act requires the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction to identify the lowest performing public schools and schools with low performing student groups in each state. Each state determines their accountability indicators, and methodologies for scoring and reporting performance on the indicators, in plans submitted to the U.S. Department of Education. The Joint Federal Notification report is created for all public schools in the state (including those with no identifications) because providing data to educators working to close Wisconsin's achievement gaps is critically important.

For the 2023-24 school year, none of Waterford Graded schools were identified as schools in need of improvement in either of these two areas.

You can view each school's or the district ESSA Accountability Report below: ESSA Reports Page

2022-2023 Joint Federal Notifications District Summary Report

ESSA Federal Summary Report 2023

Federal and State Accountability Assessments

The following assessments are required by Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and Wisconsin State Statute 118.30. You can view the 2024-2025 Wisconsin State Assessment Schedule here.

Access for ELLs ~ Grades K-8

Access for ELLs® is an annual assessment that is based on the WIDA Consortium’s ELD Standards that form the core of Wisconsin’s approach to instructing and testing ELs. This assessment allows educators, students, and families to monitor students’ progress in acquiring academic English in the domains of speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

The Access Exam is given annually between December and January by the district's EL coordinator.

Access Parent Information Brochure
Understanding Your Child's Scores

Forward Exam ~ Grades 3-8

The Wisconsin Forward Exam is given each spring in the following grade levels:

English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics in grades 3-8
Science in grades 4 and 8
Social Studies in grades 4, 8 and 10

The Forward Exam is given annually between March and April.

Parent Notification Letter (3/2024)
2024 District Forward Testing Schedule (3/2024)
Forward Parent Information Brochure

Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) ~ Grades 3-8

The DLM assessment measures the academic progress of students with significant cognitive disabilities in the following areas:

English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics in grades 3-11
Science in grades 4 and 8-11
Social Studies in grades 4, 8 and 10

The DLM Exam is given annually between March and April.

Parent Notification Letter (3/2024)

Talk with student's caseworker for your child's testing schedule

DLM Parent Information Brochure

District Assessments

i-Ready ~ Grades K-8

The i-Ready assessment is a computer-adaptive assessment that is administered in the Fall, Winter and Spring each year measuring student proficiency and growth in math. This assessment complements state and classroom level assessments that are used to monitor progress in student learning, inform curriculum development and guide programming decisions.

Understanding your Student’s i-Ready Diagnostic Results (PDF)
Understanding i_Ready Diagnostic for Families (Video)

PreACT 8/9 ~ Grade 8

The PreACT is a standards-based system of assessments that monitor progress toward college and career readiness in English, Math, Reading and Science. The PreACT is a paper/pencil assessment with various question types including multiple choice and constructed response. The district administration of the PreACT occurs in the Fall/Winter.

Understanding Your PreACT Student Score Report

aimsweb Plus Screener ~ Grades 4K-8

Act 20 States A plain language description of the literacy skills the reading readiness assessment is designed to measure.
Act 20 states that learners in 4K must be evaluated on phonemic awareness and letter sound knowledge.
Act 20 states that learners in 5K through grade 3 must be evaluated on phonemic awareness, decoding skills, alphabet knowledge, letter sound knowledge, and oral vocabulary.

Diagnostics (per Act 20)

Act 20 states that a diagnostic reading assessment administered to students identified as at-risk on the screener, must include an evaluation of rapid naming, phonological awareness, word recognition, spelling, vocabulary, listening comprehension, and, when developmentally appropriate, oral reading fluency and reading comprehension.

WGSD Assessment Calendar

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