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Who’s in the Miami Valley?
A couple of commenters have asked for state report card results for places that are pretty close to Dayton but are not in our list of “Miami Valley” school districts. For school reporting purposes, the paper considers the 60 districts in Darke, Greene, Miami, Montgomery, Preble, Shelby and Warren counties to be part of the “Miami Valley.”
I know this area does not exactly jive with what some of you think of as the Miami Valley. Our paper, for instance, has loyal readers in Mercer, Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Clinton and Butler counties, too. In some cases, we leave other counties to our sister papers. The Springfield News-Sun covers Clark and Champaign counties for us, for instance. You can find stories on those districts at their website. Likewise, districts in Butler County are covered by the Hamilton and Middletown papers.
For other areas, we just have had to make some tough decisions about how far our coverage can reach.
But here’s the great thing about an education blog. There’s no reason we can’t put all that data here. So here is a summary of how districts in other nearby counties did on the state report cards, with an explanation at the bottom for what it all means:
Butler County
Excellent
Fairfield — Met 24 standards, PI of 100, AYP not met, at risk
Lakota —Met 25 standards, PI of 103.2, AYP not met, at risk
Effective
Edgewood — Met 23 standards, PI of 97.5, AYP not met, at risk
Hamilton — Met 16 standards, PI of 92.4, AYP not met, improvement year 1
Madison — Met 18 standards, PI of 94.5, AYP not met, ar risk
Monroe — Met 23 standards, PI of 99.3, AYP not met, at risk
New Miami — Met 19 standards, PI of 97.8, AYP not met, at risk
Continuous Improvement
Middletown — Met 7 standards, PI of 84.8, AYP not met, improvement year 3
Ross — Met 24 standards, PI of 99.6, AYP met, OK
Talawanda — Met 22 standards, PI of 99.8, AYP not met, at risk
Champaign County
Excellent
West Liberty-Salem — Met 25 standards, PI of 102.6, AYP not met, at risk
Effective
Graham — Met 20 standards, PI of 94.6, AYP met, OK
Mechanicsburg — Met 20 standards, PI of 91.4, AYP not met, at risk
Triad — Met 16 standards, PI of 92.6, AYP not met, at risk
Continuous Improvement
Urbana — Met 16 standards, PI of 92.8, AYP not met, at risk
Clark County
Effective
Clark-Shawnee — Met 22 standards, PI of 98.2, AYP not met, at risk
Greenon — Met 23 standards, PI of 98.3, AYP met, OK
Northeastern — Met 20 standards, PI of 95.8, AYP not met, at risk
Northwestern — Met 19 standards, PI of 95.4, AYP not met, at risk
Southeastern — Met 23 standards, PI of 99, AYP met, OK
Tecumseh — Met 15 standards, PI of 92.8, AYP not met, at risk
Academic Watch
Springfield — Met 2 standards, PI of 77. 5, AYP not met, improvement year 3
Auglaize County
Excellent
St Marys — Met 24 standards, PI of 99.3, AYP met, OK
Minster — Met 25 standards, PI of 107.2, AYP met, OK
New Bremen — Met 25 standards, PI of 104.5, AYP not met, at risk
New Knoxville — Met 23 standards, PI of 100.5, AYP met, OK
Effective
Wapakoneta — Met 23 standards, PI of 97.3, AYP not met, at risk
Waynesfield-Goshen — Met 17 standards, PI of 90.6, AYP not met, at risk
Mercer County
Excellent
Coldwater — Met 25 standards, PI of 106.6, AYP met, OK
Marion — Met 25 standards, PI of 106.1, AYP met, OK
St Henry — Met 25 standards, PI of 106.3, AYP met, OK
Fort Recovery — Met 25 standards, PI of 106, AYP met, OK
Effective
Celina — Met 22 standards, PI of 97.7, AYP not met, at risk
Parkway — Met 15 standards, PI of 95.5, AYP not met, at risk
Clinton County
Excellent
Clinton-Massie — Met 24 standards, PI of 100, AYP not met, at risk
Effective
Blanchester — Met 23 standards, PI of 99.9, AYP not met, at risk
East Clinton — Met 20 standards, PI of 95.5, AYP met, OK
Continuous Improvement
Wilmington — Met 20 standards, PI of 94, AYP not met, at risk
What these things mean
Rating categories — There are five, from best to worst they are excellent, effective, continuous improvement, academic watch and academic emergency
Standards — This year, there are 25. Districts must have 93 percent attendance, a 90 percent graduation rate and at least 75 percent passing achievement tests at grades 3 to 8 and on the Ohio Graduation Test to meet all 25.
Performance Index Score (PI) — This is a measure of how students performed across all tests at all grades.
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) — Under No Child Left Behind, districts are required to meet minimum passing percentages in reading and math, plus show improvement in any minority subgroup (blacks, hispanics, poor children, special education students, etc.) that trails behind other kids.
Improvement status — Depending upon AYP, schools are either rated OK, at risk, or in “school improvement.” The first year AYP is not met, the school district is “at risk” for entering school improvement. After two straight years of missing AYP, the district is in “year 1” improvement status. That status progresses (year 2 to 6) every year that the district fails to meet AYP, with improvement plans and sanctions required at each step. The only way out of school improvement is to meet AYP two years in a row.
For all the links to our report card coverage, go here and scroll to the bottom.
(Image credit: Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission)
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By Scott Elliott
August 17, 2006 9:31 PM | Link to this
Oldprof, before coming to the DDN, I covered education for the Springfield paper, so I personally always find Clark County results interesting. Then I covered Auglaize and Mercer counties when I started at the DDN in the Miami County Bureau. I know we have a lot of readers up there. So I have long felt guilty that we were underserving folks in outlying areas. That’s why I’m glad to be able to get this info out.By Oldprof
August 17, 2006 7:23 PM | Link to this
Made you work, Scott :-) Thanks.