Wisconsin high-school test score ranges

Each Wisconsin high-school test (Grade 9 ELA, Grade 10 ELA, Grade 11 ELA, Grade 9 Math, Grade 10 Math, Grade 11 Math, Grade 11 Science and Grade 10 Social Studies) is scored on its own scale and sorted into performance levels. Pick a test to see the score range for every level, year by year, plus how students scored statewide.

Guides by test

At a glance

Each test's newest score scale and proficiency line, and every year we have.

Who takes these tests

Grade 11: the ACT with writing, which Wisconsin gives every spring to all 11th graders, counting the 11th graders who received a score in that subject (in 2020 the test was given before schools closed in March). Grades 9 and 10: the ACT Aspire (2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022) and the PreACT Secure (from 2023), each student counted in the grade they were in. ELA combines the English, reading and writing tests (on the PreACT Secure, English and reading). Grade 10 Social Studies: the Forward Exam, which 10th graders take every spring (no test in 2020). A school's figures count only students enrolled at that school for the whole school year, and a district's only students enrolled in the district all year; the statewide figures count every student tested, including students who changed schools during the year. Students who did not test, and students who took the alternate test (DLM), are not included.

More on who is counted, and how: see how we count.