Students in Fayette County did slightly better overall this year on their College and Career Ready Performance Index scores.
Based on five academic achievement components, the scores are calculated on a 100-point scale. Fayette’s overall 2019 score was 89.5, up 2.2 points from 2018 and 13.6 points higher than the state average of 75.9. The county’s middle schools had the highest increase, up 9.3 points from last year to 94.8. Elementary students scored at 87.9, an increase of 3.1 points. Only the high schoolers scored lower on average, dropping 3.7 points this year to 87.7.
In the Closing the Gap component, which measures the extent to which student subgroups meet improvement targets, four elementary schools (Braelinn, Crabapple Lane, North Fayette and Oak Grove) and two middle schools (Flat Rock and J.C. Booth) earned perfect scores. Rising Starr Middle and McIntosh High each got a 100 score in the Content Mastery section related to state assessments; McIntosh also earned 100 points in the Progress category, which measures achievement in English/Language Arts and math.
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