Which schools are making the greatest progress?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution was curious about which public schools in Georgia made big academic improvements over the last year.
State education department officials last week released its annual report card, officially known as the College and Career Ready Performance Index, of each Georgia public school based on a series of academic criteria. The AJC has reported on the top schools and which schools are beating the odds.
Officials increased the weight scale for the category called “progress,” a complicated measure of where each student performed relative to academically similar peers —- that counts for 40 percent of a school’s score on a typical scale of 0 to 100. Until now, that measure, often referred to as growth, was only a quarter of the report card.
Here is the list of schools with the greatest increase for each of metro Atlanta’s six largest districts and the increase in progress points.
Atlanta: Benteen Elementary School, 25.2
Clayton: Riverdale Elementary School, 22.7
Cobb: LaBelle Elementary School, 24.8
DeKalb: DeKalb Preparatory Academy, 27.4
Fulton: Findley Oaks Elementary School, 23.6
Gwinnett: Shiloh Elementary School, 22.6
About the Author
Eric Stirgus joined The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2001. He is the newsroom's education editor. Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Eric is active in the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists and the Education Writers Association and enjoys mentoring aspiring journalists.
