Mason Schools was among Southwest Ohio schools that either improved or maintained their Ohio Report Card ratings last year, despite fears that changes in the way the state calculates its Ohio Report Card ratings would hurt them.
Mason, one of the state’s premiere academic performers, reported it had returned to the state’s top academic ranking of “Excellent With Distinction.”
The previous school year saw the 11,000-student district, which consistently ranks among the top 10 of Ohio’s 614 districts, fall one rating to “Excellent” for the first time since Ohio began the annual district rankings in 2000.
The Enquirer obtained the Report Card data Wednesday from the Ohio Department of Education through a public records request. The ratings reflect academic performance in the 2010 -11 school year. The state had planned to release the results for all 614 Ohio districts next week.
The state changed the way it calculates “Value Added” this year – a measure of how much students improved on state tests over the course of the year. The changes make it more difficult for districts to maintain or elevate their rating.
Overall among Southwest Ohio’s 49 school districts, 13 local districts went up one or two Report Card categories, 25 stayed the same and 11 dropped one to two ratings.
Read the complete report at cincinnati.com.
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