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Wednesday, August 16, 2006
The Miami Valley’s report card winners and losers
With the flood of data that comes with the district report card release, and the state’s ever-changing rules and terminology, it’s not always easy to figure out what the big surprises and disappointments are.
Here’s one way to judge. I looked at last year ranking of the 60 Miami Valley school districts for performance index score (the state’s measure of test performance across all grades) and compared it to this year’s ranking to see what the biggest changes were.
From that comparison, here are the Miami Valley’s biggest report card winners and losers this year:
Biggest winners
No. 1 Tipp City — Last year ranked 27, this year ranked 12
No. 2 Botkins — Last year ranked 17, this year ranked 3
No. 3 (tie) Piqua — Last year ranked 51, this year ranked 41
No. 3 (tie) Yellow Springs — Last year ranked 28, this year ranked 18
No. 5 Franklin Monroe — Last year ranked 32, this year ranked 23
Biggest losers
No. 1 Lebanon — Last year ranked 13, this year ranked 24
No. 2 (tie) Northmont — Last year ranked 6, this year ranked 14
No. 2 (tie) Miamisburg — Last year ranked 14, this year ranked 22
No. 2 (tie) Greenville — Last year ranked 43, this year ranked 51
No. 2 (tie) Mississinawa Valley — Last year ranked 45, this year ranked 53
For the complete list of Miami Valley School district performance index rankings, go here. For more highlights from district report card data release, go here. To see each district’s state rating, go here. for results from school districts near Dayton but not included in our definition of “the Miami Valley,” try here.
And check out today’s DDN stories on the report card release here and here.
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