Monday, August 22, 2011

2011 School District Report Cards are out

The Ohio Department of Education has released its 2011 school district report cards. The state has 26 "indicators" by which it measures performance. Every Darke County school district improved its indicators, with the exception of Mississinawa (which only dropped one indicator). Five districts improved from Effective to Excellent: Greenville, Franklin-Monroe, Ansonia, Tri-Village, and Arcanum. Versailles remained Darke County's only district with the "Excellent with Distinction" rating, meeting all 26 indicators. Versailles and Franklin-Monroe were the only Darke County districts to have a Performance Index over 100. Three school districts improved, but not at a rate to meet ODE progress goals: Arcanum, Greenville, and Tri-Village.

The ODE report card home page is here. Dayton Daily News has a good summary for Darke County here (you have to go to a separate page for Miami County to see Bradford's stats). When viewing the graphic below, keep in mind that the state had 30 indicators through 2009, but only 26 beginning in 2010.

24 comments:

  1. Really quite good for ALL the schools in the county. You must also keep in mind the size of the district, students in special ed., etc. too.

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  2. I do not think Greenville can blame its standing as the poorest in the county on special ed children. The state views schools like Greenville who only met 17 out of 26 indicators as being "at risk". Much work to do.

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  3. I hope this was not simply a case of moving the goal posts.

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  4. I may be dumber that those who run the schools, but I don't see how Greenville is "Excellent" with 17 and Bradford is only "Effective" with 21. Guess it must be that new math.

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  5. Scores go up and still people are complaining. How about a pat on the back to the students, parents, and schools that made the improvements? That's what I will do. Stop looking for the negative and focus on the good things that are happening in OUR community!!

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  6. I think it would be interesting to see a ranking of local schools based on test results given to the school staff members (all of them), board members, and administrators.

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  7. Maybe Greenville should get away from the "Good Old Boy" approach. You keep promoting the kids that have parents that are influential in sports and school work. It has been that way for at least 30 years. Now you know why I have moved to Versailles. Doesn't really take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I don't blame the teachers. I blame the school board.

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  8. Opus can answer the first question. OGT social studies actual question: explain four effects of industrialization on living and working conditions for the early industrial working class that moved to the new industrial towns of 19th century Britain.

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  9. To all of my anonymous friends here, I don't understand the part about promoting influential kids. That makes no sense. I'm working on a committee of people right now who recognize the need for a new school and they are all just good people. There are young and old from all economic levels with a common goal. You can all continually bad mouth Greeville Schools, but remember this, there are 25 precincts who vote on Greenville School issues. 12 are in the city and the rest are in the townships around Greenville and they go from the Indiana line (Washington) to about to miles from Bradford (Adams). The voting record has proven who the influential people have been in this district. Perhaps if Greenville City Schools hadn't been the nice guy 30 years ago to take in all of the districts who couldn't make it on their own, we wouldn't have the problems we have now. Try being positive for about 2 minutes and try supporting YOUR schools.

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  10. *yawns*

    The industrialization of 19th century Great Britain lead to low priced goods, overcrowding in the cities from people seeking employment, hazardous working conditions due dangerous new machinery and long working hours with relatively low pay.

    Allow me to clarify, I'm not suggesting replacing the OGT or other testing of the students. I just think it would be interesting, if not entertaining, to see a separate ranking based on staff testing..

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  11. This is a great report card for Darke County Schools. Way to go.

    In particular, as a Greenville citizen, I could not be more proud of our students, faculty, staff, and administrators who came together to make this happen for Greenville City Schools. This report card shows objectively that GCS improved in all areas, despite having less than adequate learning conditions.

    Keep up the good work.

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  12. Has anyone figured out the question posed above? How did Greenville get an Excellent Rating when they did worse in meeting indicators than Mississinawa or Bradford, who got rated as Effective?

    Not trying to downplay anything for Greenville but they have consistantly ranked below others for years, yet received an Excellent rating. There must be an explanation but I have not seen one yet. Can anyone explain this?

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  13. If I recall correctly, there was a time when Greenville had 21 indicators. Why have they slipped to 17 indicators? Could part of the problem be because of the lack of technology, the lack of textbooks, or the lack of space to adequately teach our students? When I went to school in the '50s and '60s, the community was proud of their schools and provided what was needed. How the attitude in this community has changed today. I still believe in quality education being the cornerstone for a good life; I will vote "yes" for new facilities.

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  14. Well done opus. You would receive a 4/4 for your answer. Of course some more details would have been nice, but this is a Internet chat, not your senior thesis.

    Schools can move up the ranking scale if they meet several other indicators such as Adequate yearly progress AYP, among others. This is explained on the ODE website somewhere. The point is Greenville, like other schools in the county are doing a better job of teaching students.

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  15. Greenville is an "at risk" school because of their AYP. They have the lowest met indicators in the county. Thats change you can believe in. Only in Greenville would you hear people trying to spin a last place ranking in the county as a great achievment. Blame it on the buildings. It is really laughable. People wonder why Greenville schools are looked down on. New buildings will not fix Greenvilles problem.

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  16. "New buildings will not fix Greenvilles problem." ...neither will negativity and lack of support! If you don't offer workable solutions, or try to help improve things, you are part of the problem. I'm sure that you will come up with all kinds of reasons why its not your place to help fix things, so this is really a pointless post, but community is defined as: 8.A feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals

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  17. 3 more indicators met than last year. That's improvement. But, we need a new school regardless of these test scores or who is coaching the basketball team. People need to look in the mirror and stop making excuses for why they won't support the levy.

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  18. I still wouldn't send my kids to GCS. No thanks.

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  19. That's OK, we are better off without your 12 kids & 3 different fathers....

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  20. lol Nice, insult others because you have the worst schools in the county. You're funny.

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  21. I just looked at a website for my Alma mater. They wanted to remind students to pick up their laptop computer covers before school started. Wow! A community that really cares about their students. Greenville has the potential and the money, we just need to stop bickering and DO something. It is an investment in this town and its future. Until then, Good job Greenville schools! I guess its about as good as can be expected with what you have to work with.

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  22. Yeah more money solves everything. I guess if we'd just hike our taxes up high enough these lazy poor students would be scholars. If a kid wants to learn they can learn anywhere. Greenville's problem is the kids are lazy and coddled. Parents don't care enough to see to it their kids are doing homework or to check in on their kids work at school. There is a reason Greenville schools are looked down on by other county citizens and its not because they do not have new buildings.

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  23. @ 8:50 am, do you remember when you were a kid? were you ambitious enough and had the en-site to even know what an education could do for you. If it boiled down to kids being lazy and coddled, we could forget about schools altogether.. dumb comment.

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  24. En-site? Seriously? You call someone's comment dumb and you make up a word like that?

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