The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has issued a School Report Card for your child’s school and for every public school in Wisconsin. The School Report Card will help parents understand how their child’s school is doing and where it can improve. The new report cards will help all Wisconsin public schools get a better picture of how well they help children learn, advance to the next grade, and graduate ready for college and career. Our goal is to help every student in a Wisconsin school succeed, graduate, and be ready to pursue further education and a career.
Educational Programming
The comprehensive curriculum at the elementary level provides opportunities for students to meet Wisconsin Model Academic Standards in reading, writing, math, social studies, and science as well as art, music, physical education, information and technology literacy, research and inquiry. The Time 4 learning Charter School offers pre-school experiences to four-year old children.
At the middle and high school level, students have multiple pathways to meeting graduation requirements and preparing for the next step. Opportunities include Advanced Placement offerings, various vocational opportunities through a consortium with MATC, support through at-risk and special education programming, quality experiences in theater, music, digital productions, and art, three foreign languages, many math courses designed to meet students’ needs, student publications, internships and mentorships, and health and wellness offerings in both physical education and FACE.
Beyond the classroom, students may get involved in a broad range of sports, fine arts, clubs, and activities. All grade levels participate in service-learning opportunities within the community.
Achievement
One way to gauge student and school performance is through testing. Statewide, students in third through eighth grade and tenth grade take the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Exams. The Greendale School District enjoys an excellent reputation and consistently scores high on surveys and comparisons of school districts.
In its April 2012 issue, Milwaukee Magazine again ranked the best schools in the region. They looked at 33 K-12 and 21 K-8 school districts in the five-county Milwaukee area. Out of the 54 school districts, Greendale High School placed 8th and Greendale K-8 schools placed 6th for “Top Scorers.” For this report, Milwaukee Magazine ranked districts’ standardized test scores in math and reading from the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examination (WKCE) for K-8 and also factored in indicators of college readiness, such as ACT scores and the percentage of students scoring three or higher on Advanced Placement tests for high schools.
The Greendale School District also ranked 6th for the best overall K-12 district in “The Big Picture.” This study identified the area’s most “well-rounded” school systems and factored in the K-8 and high school scores equally.
Newsweek has ranked Greendale High School in the top 5% of U.S. public high schools each year since 2006. Greendale High is ranked among the top U.S. public high schools according to “The High School Challenge” published by the Washington Post
Over 90% percent of Greendale High School graduates continue on to four-year colleges and technical schools or two year colleges.
