Middletown Schools Continuous Improvement

[QUOTE=John Beagle]Middletown Schools retained its “Continuous Improvement” rating, according to the preliminary data released Wednesday by the Ohio Department of Education.
The Middletown City School District’s performance index rating continues to climb in the Ohio Department of Education’s district report card ratings. And while he is encouraged by the district’s continued progress, superintendent Greg Rasmussen said he knows there’s still work to do.

“Since the state started rating schools with a performance index, we’ve got the highest score (87.2) we’ve ever had,” Rasmussen said.

http://www.middletownjournal.com/news/news/local/middletown-schools-retains-continuous-improvement-/nSgHc/[/QUOTE]

Vet,

They just need more money to fix it vet

well the school buildings are a couple of years old now..maybe we need some new ones to increase the scores..

"Obviously, we are disappointed that we lost grade-level indicators that we gained last year. Several of these we missed by just a few tenths of a percentage point"

HAZARDS OF COMING TOO CLOSE TO THE EDGE OF THE CANYON. SOMETIMES YOU FALL TO THE BOTTOM. TARGET THE PATH AWAY FROM THE EDGE AND YOU HAVE ROOM FOR ERROR.

"The only other districts in Butler County to earn "Above Growth" on Value Added last year were Lakota and Ross"

IN VERY GOOD COMPANY HERE MS. ANDREW. CONGRATULATIONS.

"Middletown's Performance Index went up to 87.2. It has gone up each of the last 4 years (2008: 80.0; 2009: 81.7; 2010: 82.3; 2011: 85.9; 2012: 87.2). (To put this in perspective, a Performance Index of 90 would earn an overall rating of Effective instead of Continuous Improvement. The district goal for this year is 91.6)."

I LIKE THE TARGET OF 91.6. ALSO LIKE THE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT TREND.

This is good news that we compare favorably to districts that face similar challenges as we do. It is also a cause for hope -- two of these districts (Barberton City and Masillon City) are rated Excellent. If they can do it with similar populations, then we can too.

"The 18 "Similar Districts" are as follows (listed in order of 4 year growth in Performance Index): Mansfield, Middletown, Massillon, Marion City, Newark, Whitehall, Warren City, Barberton, Elyria City, Canton, Springfield, Lima, Hamilton, Zanesville, Sandusky, Lorain, Maple Heights, and Garfield Heights".

I LIKE MIDDLETOWN'S RANKING IN THIS COMPARISON. LIVED IN NEWARK FOR FIVE YEARS.......VERY SIMILAR TO MIDDLETOWN'S DEMOGRAPHICS. COULD BE SISTER CITIES, ALTHOUGH NEWARK HAS MANAGED TO RETAIN THEIR EMPLOYERS MUCH BETTER THAN MIDDLETOWN HAS. NICE INDUSTRIAL PARK OUT BY I-70 AND HEBRON WHERE I WORKED AT ONE TIME BACK IN THE 80'S. DECENT PAY FOR THE AREA. THOUGHT I READ WHERE HAMILTON HAD BETTER RESULTS THAN MIDDLETOWN DID AND HAS MORE INDICATORS MET.

Vet, thank you for your positive comments. You are correct that Hamilton's Performance Index is higher and it met more grade-level indicators than Middletown. However, it was "Below Value Added", meaning that on average students made less than one year's academic growth in the last year. And in the last 4 years, its Performance Index rose only 1.7 points, versus Middletown's increase of 7.2 points.