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The report cards released Thursday by the Ohio Department of Education assign grades from A to F for a series of performance standards, plus overall grades for the first time. A summary describing the letter-graded categories can be found below.
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The overall grade
For the first time, schools and districts received an overall letter grade. this grade was calculated using results from six "components" - achievement, progress, gap closing, improving at-risk K-3 readers, graduation rate and prepared for success.
Categories
(Descriptions provided by the Ohio Department of Education)
Achievement (20 percent of overall grade)
Progress (20 percent)
- Progress looks closely at the growth that all students are making based on their past performances.
Gap closing (15 percent)
Improving at-risk K-3 readers (15 percent)
Graduation Rate (15 percent)
- Graduation Rate looks at the percentage of students successfully finishing high school with a diploma in four or five years.
Prepared for Success (15 percent)
Other report card terms and rating categories
Performance index: How well did students perform on the tests overall.
Value added: A measure of growth by individual students.
Rich Exner, data analysis editor for cleveland.com, writes about numbers on a variety of topics. Follow on Twitter @RichExner or see previous stories at cleveland.com/datacentral.