Mason Schools ranked fifth in the state for more year-to-year academic growth, according to a numeric ranking of Ohio school districts compiled by a nonprofit consulting company.
The ranking was based on state testing data for grades four through eight.
Lakota, the state’s seventh-largest school district with more than 17,400 students, was the state’s top school district for academic growth. It is the only one of the state’s 10 largest districts to be rated Excellent with Distinction on state report cards this year
Cincinnati Public Schools’ growth ranked in the top 5 percent in the state for academic growth, exceeding other large urban districts and many suburban districts like Loveland, Sycamore and Batavia.
The lowest-ranked local district was the 3,500-student Winton Woods, which ranked 592nd.
The report was compiled by the Columbus-based nonprofit consulting company Battelle for Kids and SOAR, a collaborative of 100 Ohio school districts. The organizations ranked 609 school districts in Ohio based on students’ academic progress between the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years.
The report used the Ohio Department of Education’s “Value-Added” data – one of several ways the state measures academic growth. It ranked districts based on how their student growth compared to the state average.
Of the 49 local districts, 15 were cited for achieving more than a year’s growth, 12 achieved a year’s worth of growth, and the rest achieved less than a year’s worth of growth, according to the Battelle/SOAR report.
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