State Releases District Report Cards for 2012 - 2013

The State of Ohio Department of Education has released its report card "grades" for school districts for the 2012 - 2013 school year. This year, in addition to the number of performance indicators met by a district, Performance Index, and other metrics meant to show how effective a district is, the state has added letter grades to their system. The change in the system is supposed to make it easier to understand the strengths and weaknesses of districts, and district overall grades (among others) won't be added for a couple of years.

Here's an example of a couple of grades that are now issued (and included below for Darke County Schools).

• Overall value added – Did 4th-8th graders make one year of academic growth in math and reading?
• AMOs – Did each subgroup of students (by race, economics, etc.) narrow the achievement gaps with the student body as a whole?

Take a look at these, and check out the full grading system at the Ohio Department of Education's website by clicking on each school district's name to see more letter grades than shown below.

Since pulling information from the DOE's site was difficult due to server issues after the grades were released, I utilized WHIOtv.com for the data below (click here to view their breakout of schools across the Miami Valley).

District Name	Standards met, of 24 (grade)	Performance Index score (grade)	Graduation rate, 4-year (grade)	Overall Value-Added	AMO
Versailles	24 (A)	107.4 (B)	95.9 (A)	A	B
Franklin Monroe	22 (A)	101.5 (B)	96.9 (A)	F	B
Ansonia	22 (A)	99.3 (B)	93.8 (A)	A	B
Arcanum-Butler	23 (A)	98.6 (B)	97.3 (A)	B	C
Tri-Village	20 (B)	97.4 (B)	94.5 (A)	A	D
Mississinawa Valley	20 (B)	97.2 (B)	93.5 (A)	A	C
Greenville	19 (C)	96.3 (B)	90.5 (B)	A	F
Bradford	18 (C)	96.0 (B)	92.9 (B)	F	C