Principal Message—School Report Cards

Prairie View Elementary: Exceeds Expectations

Recently, the State of Wisconsin released our annual school report card. The report card is one measure of assessing a school’s performance in math and reading in comparison to state standards.

Prairie View earned an overall rating of 74.8, placing our school in the exceeding expectations category.

The school report card measures our student’s performance on the Wisconsin Forward state exam given

in grade 3rd -5th each Spring. Specifically, the state looks at our overall student achievement, growth,

target group outcomes, and on-track to graduate. When reviewing Prairie View student data, our school has shown increased performance in the following areas:

* Increased percentage of students performing in the proficient/advanced range in math.

* Above or significantly above the state average in student achievement (reading and math), and

post-secondary readiness.

While we recognize positive accomplishments, we also focus on areas for improvement. The

recent data would suggest the need to perform better in the category of target group outcomes. This category refers to growth for students in specific demographic subsets. Specifically, how do our students perform on the Forward exam if they have a disability, are economically disadvantaged or have

limited English proficiency.

To address our school performance, we continue to work diligently in many ways. First, our district has invested significant financial resources on professional teacher training in literacy. As of June 2025, all our core academic teachers completed a rigorous science of reading course. Additionally, in September we implemented a new ELA curriculum that is designed to challenge our students and raise

our literacy scores. We also create school wide goals to address reading comprehension and fluency. In math, teachers will focus on order of operations and fractions.

I am confident that we are moving in the right direction. We want our students to grow in their

skills, in order to meet future academic and career demands. Our reading and math instruction, through greater personalized learning paths and student empowerment, also promotes the key learnability skills

of creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking. We believe this produces a well- rounded child ready to solve problems in the “real” world.

On behalf of our Prairie View team, it is a pleasure to teach your child. We wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

Mark your calendars for:

No School- Teacher Inservice December 1st

Tree Trimming on the Square- December 5th

5th Grade Music Concert- December 11th

Ski Club Begins 12/9, and Tues 12/16, 1/6, 1/13, 1/20, 1/27 all weather permitting

Spirit Week- December 15-19

Winter Break Begins December 22nd

School Resumes January 5th

Begins Wednesday January 7th until February 11th for Student's signed up in Mrs Henderson's and Mrs Murphy's class's.

Please remember:

*If your child will be coming into school past 9:00 a.m., please include a lunch choice when leaving a message or sending an email about the absence. This will ensure we have enough lunches prepared for all students.

*An extra Set of Clothes are needed at school for accidents as well as spills. Please keep an extra set in your child's backpack

*Shoes and Socks are needed on Phy Ed Days!

*As the weather gets colder it is important to remember that we will continue to go outside as long as the temperature and/or windchill is above 0. Please make sure your child has a warm coat, hat, gloves or mittens and boots. If assistance is needed in getting any of these items please reach out to someone in the school office.

*The Lost and Found is growing! Have your child check for any missing items. We will donate anything left over the holidays and at the end of the school year.

Please see the message linked below from the Wellness Committee for December.

If your student is absent from school due to a medical appointment, please provide a note from the medical provider to have the absence medically excused. Please refer to the chart to determine when your child is able to come back to school after an illness.

If your child need to be picked up from school due to illness or injury we ask that every attempt is made to have your child picked up within 30 minutes.

Please ensure we have up to date Emergency numbers listed in Skyward Family access.

Please see the Reading Calendar link below.

Happy Reading!