The Green Bay Area Public Schools (GBAPS) Board of Education got its first look at the district’s 2024-25 Wisconsin DPI (Department of Public Instruction) report card at its Nov. 10 work session.
This year, GBAPS earned an overall score of 61.4 — up from last year’s score of 60.1.
The overall score represents a weighted composite of four key areas — achievement, growth, target group outcomes and on-track to graduation.
The ‘achievement’ category, which accounts for 9% of the district’s overall score, is based on student performance in English language arts (ELA) and math.
“[This] area of the report card gives students an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge on our ELA and mathematics standards for their grade level, relative to how their peers have done across the state,” said Jessica Vandenheuvel, associate director of assessment and data for the district.
In this category, GBAPS earned scores of 48 in ELA and 49.5 in mathematics for a total achievement score of 48.8 — up more than seven points from last year’s score of 41.6.
The ‘growth’ category, which accounts for 41% of the district’s overall score, recognizes rates of student improvement in scores relative to other, similar students.
“The growth sore acknowledges and rewards the district for the rate at which their students are closing the gaps or growing from year to year between two test measures,” Vandenheuvel said. “There is a very complex value-added calculation behind the score that helps to stabilize for economic status, disability status and language status. All of those components have been studied with research for data outcomes for different student groups and then that’s put into their calculations so it norms performance for those groups and also for like-achieving students. So when we look at the scores that we’re seeing here for growth, it’s compared to similar student groups across the state.
In this category GBAPS earned scores of 58.4 in ELA and 60.3 in mathematics for a total score of 59.4 — down nearly two points from last year’s score of 61.3
The ‘target group outcomes’ category, which accounts for 25% of the district’s overall score, represents a composite of the lowest 25% of student scores in the district (approximately 2,750 students) and is inclusive of those students’ attendance and graduation rates.
“So our district has this profile of students scoring at the absolute highest and the absolute lowest,” David Johns, associate superintendent of continuous school improvement said. “You identify the 25% of the lowest student scores — in our district that’s about 2,700 students — and then you take that group like it’s its own school. This is where we look at a fresh composite math performance and ELA performance and this now includes those students’ attendance and graduation rates as applicable, so now you’re actually getting more of a composite of a whole student.”
In this category, GBAPS earned a score of 56.9 — up more than three points from last year’s score of 53.2.
The ‘on-track to graduation’ category, which accounts for 25% of the district’s overall score, isa composite of chronic absenteeism, graduation rates and a multi-year average of third-grade ELA proficiency and eighth-grade math proficiency.
“What’s important to note in any DPI report card is the year that it’s released, you’re actually looking at attendance and graduation rate data that lags by one year,” Johns said. “Very soon now, we’ll be getting fresh for just last school year, but that is not incorporated in the 2024-25 report.”
In this category, GBAPS earned a score of 73.7 — up more than three points from last year’s score of 70.
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