Board reviews district’s report card

CLINTONVILLE – At its Dec. 8 meeting, the Clintonville Board of Education reviewed the district’s report cards which saw Clintonville High School meet few expectations, while Clintonville Middle School, Clintonville Elementary School, and the district as a whole meet expectations.
The school report cards were released by the Wisconsin Department of Education in November.
Report card scores
Even though the School Report Card scores should not be compared year-to-year because the state has changed the standards from year-to-year, below are the scores for the Clintonville School District.
The 2024-25 report card score for the district as a whole was 64.9, which meets expectations. The score in 2023-24 was 66.2.

The 2024-25 report card score for Clintonville High School was 56.2, which meets few expectations. The score in 2023-24 was 55.9.
The 2024-25 report card score for Clintonville Middle School was 70.5, which meets expectations. The score in 2023-24 was 74.4.
The 2024-25 report card score for Clintonville Elementary School was 75.9, which exceeds expectations. The score in 2023-24 was 74.3. For the 2021-22 school year, the score for the elementary school was 44.4, which failed to meet expectations.

Results presentation
When presenting the report card scores to the board, Elly Brzezinski, curriculum director for the Clintonville School District, told the board that the Wisconsin Department of Education once again made changes to the report cards that are distributed to the districts in the state.

One of the changes was how the state averages the scores. Brzezinski said in the past, three years of testing data were used to measure achievement. For this year’s report cards, only two years of testing data was used. She added that next year the state is going to go back to using three years of testing data.
“I don’t really know why they did that, but that’s what they did,” Brzezinski said.
Another change that was made that Brzezinski said affected the report cards for the schools in the Clintonville School District was the removal of a scale adjustment on achievement scores for the 2023-24 school year.
“So, when you look at the scores for this year, you kind of have to take them with a grain of salt,” Brzezinski said. “You can’t really compare last year to this year because they made these big changes.”
Brzezinski said the district is still meeting expectations.
She added that Clintonville High School had a “major dip” in 2022-23, but the score for the high school has been slowly increasing since.
To help improve the score for the report cards for the district’s schools, Brzezinski said the district is focusing on standards and learning targets.
Also at Clintonville High School, Brzezinski said that in the English Department, one of the teachers is teaching two periods of reading intervention. In the Math Department, two teachers are teaching one period of math intervention.
When looking at the scores for Clintonville Middle School, Brzezinski said the report card grade did decrease from the previous year.
“I don’t know if its because we can’t compare or what,” Brzezinski said. “Our math scores weren’t so hot this year. I think that’s because of the massive turnover that we had in math last year. We only had one math teacher that ever taught math before in the middle school.”
Regarding Clintonville Elementary School, Brzezinski said the school had seen significant gains the last few years in its report card scores.
Clintonville Superintendent Troy Kuhn told the board that the district will work toward implementing the successful strategies at the elementary school to the middle and high school. When doing this, Kuhn said educators will be held accountable.
“As we coach people, they may not like that they’re being coached, but the proof is in the pudding,” Kuhn said.
He added that there needs to be a focus on achievement, in addition to focusing on growth.