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District earns
“Excellent” Rating on ODE Report Card
Greenville City Schools…
File photo: Wave Parade following GHS Softball State Championship
“I am extremely happy with the results of our 2010-11 district report
card! The credit truly goes to our students and staff who have
worked together focusing on making every instructional moment count in
the classroom,” said Susie Riegle, Superintendent of Greenville
Schools.
Over the past four years, the District’s State Report Card reflects
positive growth in all areas. Riegle added, “We have
consistently demonstrated positive academic growth in the district over
the past several years. The emphasis on solid instructional
practices being used in all of the district’s classrooms has been and
will continue to be the standard. We are working to sustain and
increase with each year the positive academic growth we have been
experiencing.”
The Ohio Department of Education’s State and Local Report Cards rate
the performance of districts and schools using four measures, including
the state indicators drawn from academic tests. Other measures include:
• Value-Added results, which show whether students meet the
expected one year of growth for students in grades 3-8 in reading and
math. In 2010-2011, 79.5 percent of Ohio public school districts and
81.4 percent of its schools met or exceeded expected Value-Added gains.
• The Performance Index looks at the performance of every
student, not just those who score proficient or higher. In 2010-11,
89.3 percent of Ohio’s districts and 71 percent of its schools improved
their Performance Index scores.
• Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) is a federally required
component that measures achievement of each student subgroup, including
racial and ethnic components. Half of the public school districts (50.6
percent) and nearly 60 percent of its schools met AYP in 2010-2011.
While Greenville City Schools continued to show positive gains again
this year in all areas, the district qualified for its Excellent rating
through the Value-Added growth measure. In short, the Value Added
measure is focused on how well students are progressing in the
present. The Value Added measure helps to answer the question:
"Despite how well or how poorly a student did in the past, how much
growth did the student achieve in the current school year?"
The Value Added measure was put in place to ensure that a) schools
continue to push students who scored well on past state tests to higher
levels and, b) to give schools credit for gains students make even if
they did not earn a passing score on a state test. Overall, the
state sets a target that each school district must have their students
demonstrate one year’s worth of academic growth in each school
year.
For the 2010-2011 school year, Greenville City Schools exceeded the
state's value added target. Guy Parmigian, Greenville City
Schools Director of Curriculum, commented, “Overall, our students
achieved MORE than one year's worth of academic growth during the
2010-11 school year. This outstanding accomplishment demonstrates
that our district is making positive strides by making more effective
use of instructional time, and providing more effective interventions
and supports for our students. This accomplishment reflects our
district's commitment to use a variety of quality assessment strategies
and cutting-edge educational technology so that each minute of
instructional time is more focused on raising levels of student
achievement for all of the students we serve.
“Earning ‘Above Expected Growth’ on the report card value added measure
shows our district stakeholders that the resources we are directing
toward professional development, educational technology, and other key
initiatives are resulting in real academic gains for our
students--gains that exceed targets set for our district by the state,”
he added. “Earning ‘Above Expected Growth’ tells us as a community that
our district is focused on high expectations for all students and is
targeting resources in the right places to help make it happen.”
Each building played a major role in helping Greenville City Schools
attain the Excellent rating. Woodland Primary, while not rated
since Ohio Achievement Assessments do not begin until grade 3,
established a foundation for their students to experience
success. East Intermediate was rated Excellent by meeting all of
their indicators on the State Report Card. They achieved the
Excellent rating on the 2008-09 Report Card, were Effective last year,
and have again achieved the Excellent status. Greenville
Middle School and Greenville Junior High attained the Excellent rating
as well, while Greenville Senior High was rated Effective.
The Greenville Junior High has experienced a substantial amount of
growth over the two years going from Continuous Improvement to
Effective and now to Excellent. They earned “Above Expected
Growth” for the second consecutive year at the Junior High improving
their building rating to Excellent. In addition, South Middle
School earned “Above Expected Growth” in improving from Effective to
Excellent.
Former South Middle School and Junior High Principal, David Peltz, who
has assumed the role as one of the district’s Directors of Curriculum
added, “It is tremendous to receive tangible evidence that we are
working hard to provide an "Excellent" educational environment for our
students. The teachers and students have been fantastic at
working together to improve student learning.
“We have increased professional development opportunities and provided
time for teachers to collaborate more than ever before,” he added. “We
have also worked hard to unify our curriculum efforts in creating a
formative learning environment. I could not be more excited for
all of our students and staff. They are to be credited with this
success.”
Seven Years of GCS District Report Card Ratings: 2004-2006 – Continuous
Improvement; 2007-2009 – Effective; and 2010 – Excellent.
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