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Ohio Department of Education
2016 Ohio
School Report Cards Released
9/15/2016
The Ohio Department of Education has released the annual Ohio School
Report Cards.
Users can find the grades and other data for all schools and districts,
including community and other schools, at reportcard.education.ohio.gov.
“Ohio has raised expectations for students to reflect what is necessary
for them to be successful in college, careers and life. This year’s
report cards and the grades we’re seeing reflect a system in
transition,” Superintendent of Public Instruction Paolo DeMaria said.
“They reflect new tests, higher achievement targets and more
challenging expectations. Improvement is happening, and with time, it
will begin to show on the report cards. There are many ways that
parents and communities gauge the success and improvement of schools
and districts — the report card is one of them. At the same time, we
know schools and districts will use these report cards to have
discussions about performance and make decisions about instruction and
improvement strategies.”
Districts and schools were graded on six components for the 2015-2016
school year. The components are Achievement, Progress, Gap Closing,
Graduation Rate, K-3 Literacy and Prepared for Success. While the
department has given letter grades on most of the individual measures
within the components for several years, new this year are letter
grades on each of the six components. More information about the
components can be found here.
Last summer, Ohio lawmakers extended “safe harbor” provisions to give
students and schools time to adjust to the new standards and tests.
During the safe harbor school years, schools may not use test results
in any decision to grant credit to a student or as a factor to promote
or deny a student’s promotion to a higher grade level. The only
exception to this safe harbor provision is the Third Grade Reading
Guarantee. Safe harbor also does not apply to graduation requirements.
For spreadsheets of the district-level and building-level report card
data, click here
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