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Springfield maintains “Continuous Improvement” rating
Later tonight/early tomorrow we’ll have capsules on each district up on springfieldnewssun.com and I’ll link to them but for now I’ll go over some highlights on the blog.
Springfield City Schools kept its “Continuous Improvement” rating for the 2008-09 school year.
Early word indicated that Springfield would drop back down to the “Academic Watch” category, making the district’s boundaries eligible for charter school start ups again. Under Ohio law, charter schools can be built in the really big urban areas (Columbus and Dayton for example) any time but not in other districts if they are ranked “Continuous Improvement” or higher.
Springfield picked up one more indicator this year than last (indicators are standards for Ohio Achievement Test proficiency, Ohio Graduation Test proficiency, graduation rate and attendance) for a total of 4 and didn’t meet the Adequate Yearly Progress standards for subgroups of student populations (for racial, economic and ability differences).
Springfield owes its “Continuous Improvement” rating once again to the value-added measure, lobbied for by urban districts and those that serve special populations in higher numbers. Value-added measures a student’s growth of a particular year, with no regard to proficiency.
Prior to value-added, if a student came in already behind it didn’t matter how much they learned unless they were caught up by test time.
So say a student comes to a 4th grade class at a 2nd grade level in reading and at test time, the student is reading on a 3rd grade level. Without value-added, that progress wouldn’t be reflected anywhere on the report card.
With value-added, however, the district is rewarded for making a full year’s progress during the course of the year, even though the student doesn’t end up on grade level.
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By Rhonda
August 25, 2009 8:20 PM | Link to this
Improving, I dont know where, we were in the borders changes and my daughter was one the had to change schools which i was ok with until I went to open house and found that she went froma 24 student class to a 33 student class. She is also in IEP classes and went froma 17 student to a 50 student, now please tell me how thats fair to either the teacher of student cuz I am yet to figure that out, and yet you say there are improving.
By L. Robinette
September 5, 2009 7:23 PM | Link to this
It also should noted that Hayward is ‘Effective” on this same report card. Why is this fact not stated?? Hayward has come a long way & is a blessed school!! :)
By Megan Gildow
September 8, 2009 12:55 AM | Link to this
L. Robinette- This blog post does not single out any of the individual buildings and is solely focused on Springfield’s rating as a district. I’m in the process of evaluating building level data this week and next and will point out some of the highs and lows soon.
By Etna Road Elementary
April 11, 2010 12:38 AM | Link to this
We are the only elementary in Whitehall that earned AYP and are above our other two elementary buildings. However, we believe in Whitehall City Schools and would like too challenge Springfield schools to earning an “effective rating” for this year! Would like to do a “live challenge” to your kids! Let’s do this —-it can only be a win-win situation. We are economically challenged and well as extremely diverse and mobile city. But ..WE ARE THE CITY OF PRIDE and want to prove it. How can we do this? Before the test!!!!! Mrs. Shannon
By Etna Road Elementary
April 11, 2010 12:40 AM | Link to this
We are the only elementary in Whitehall that earned AYP and are above our other two elementary buildings. However, we believe in Whitehall City Schools and would like too challenge Springfield schools to earning an “effective rating” for this year! Would like to do a “live challenge” to your kids! Let’s do this —-it can only be a win-win situation. We are economically challenged and well as extremely diverse and mobile city. But ..WE ARE THE CITY OF PRIDE and want to prove it. How can we do this? Before the test!!!!! Mrs. Shannon
By Etna Road Elementary
April 11, 2010 12:40 AM | Link to this
We are the only elementary in Whitehall that earned AYP and are above our other two elementary buildings. However, we believe in Whitehall City Schools and would like too challenge Springfield schools to earning an “effective rating” for this year! Would like to do a “live challenge” to your kids! Let’s do this —-it can only be a win-win situation. We are economically challenged and well as extremely diverse and mobile city. But ..WE ARE THE CITY OF PRIDE and want to prove it. How can we do this? Before the test!!!!! Mrs. Shannon
By Etna Road Elementary
April 11, 2010 12:40 AM | Link to this
We are the only elementary in Whitehall that earned AYP and are above our other two elementary buildings. However, we believe in Whitehall City Schools and would like too challenge Springfield schools to earning an “effective rating” for this year! Would like to do a “live challenge” to your kids! Let’s do this —-it can only be a win-win situation. We are economically challenged and well as extremely diverse and mobile city. But ..WE ARE THE CITY OF PRIDE and want to prove it. How can we do this? Before the test!!!!! Mrs. Shannon
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