Summary:
New Berlin CUSD 16 serves 863 students across three schools, from prekindergarten through grade 12: New Berlin Elementary School (PK–5), New Berlin Junior High School (6–8), and New Berlin High School (9–12). The clearest overall strength is English language arts: both schools reporting IAR results scored above the state in ELA and math, and the high school was above state results in ELA on the ACT and both grades of PreACT Secure.
New Berlin Elementary School leads the two IAR schools in 2025–2026 All Grades results: 74% in ELA and 50% in math, compared with 69% and 45% at New Berlin Junior High School—advantages of 4 and 5 points. Elementary’s standout grade-level result is fifth-grade ELA at 88%, 33 points above the state; its fifth-grade science result is 75%, 28 points above. Junior High’s strongest relative result is seventh-grade math, at 53%, 13 points above the state. At the high school, 11th-grade ACT ELA was 67%, 17 points above the state, while ACT math was 39%, 1 point below. SchoolDigger ranks New Berlin High School highest among the three at the 79th percentile; Elementary is at the 71st and Junior High at the 65th. These are SchoolDigger statewide ranking percentiles, not proficiency scores.
Recent trends favor ELA, while math and science are less consistent. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the two IAR schools’ average ELA result rose from 66% to 72%, and their average lead over the state grew from 13 to 15 points; their average math result edged down from 48% to 47%, and the lead narrowed from 9 to 8 points. High School’s 11th-grade ACT results rose by 19 points in ELA, 6 in math, and 13 in science, but grade 10 science fell by 11 points and Junior High eighth-grade science fell by 17. For context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 30% at Elementary, 29% at Junior High, and 26% at High School; student-teacher ratios that year were 13.2, 12.2, and 12.9, respectively.
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