BW District looks good in ODE’s preliminary data

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

By this time each new school year, school dis­tricts statewide have received report cards from the Ohio Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion based on the pre­vi­ous school year’s per­for­mance, but not this year. The fly in the oint­ment is an inves­ti­ga­tion into school dis­tricts around the state sub­mit­ting bogus atten­dance num­bers in an attempt to improve scores. Until those inves­ti­ga­tions are com­plete the ODE’s 2011-12 Report Cards will not be released.

Dur­ing Mon­day evening’s Big Wal­nut Local School Dis­trict Board of Edu­ca­tion meet­ing, dis­trict Direc­tor of Aca­d­e­mic Achieve­ment Angie Pol­lock was able to share pre­lim­i­nary data released by the ODE. The data is com­plete, minus the fed­er­ally required Ade­quately Yearly Progress mea­sure and Value Added adjustment.

Big Wal­nut admin­is­tra­tors, staff and com­mu­nity mem­bers do not know if the dis­trict will be rated Excel­lent for a sev­enth straight year, the ODE has been tight-lipped about when this year’s report cards will be released, but Pol­lock said as a whole, Big Wal­nut build­ings and the dis­trict all have excel­lent pre­lim­i­nary data.

• Big Wal­nut Ele­men­tary School met 8 of 8 Indi­ca­tors and had a Per­for­mance Index of 105.8, up from 104.6 last year.

• Big Wal­nut High School met 12 of 12 Indi­ca­tors and had a 109.0 Per­for­mance Index, up from 103.6 last year.

• Big Wal­nut Mid­dle School met all 8 of 8 Indi­ca­tors and had a 102.8 Per­for­mance Index, up from 101.7 last year.

• Gen­eral Rose­crans Ele­men­tary School met all 8 of 8 Indi­ca­tors and had a 103.5 Per­for­mance Index, up from 97.9 last year.

• Hylen Soud­ers Ele­men­tary School met all 8 of 8 Indi­ca­tors and had a 107.8 Per­for­mance Index, up from 104.9 last year.

As a school dis­trict, Big Wal­nut Local met all 24 of 24 Indi­ca­tors and had a Per­for­mance Index of 105.4, up from 102.3 last year (and 101.0 the year before that).

“We’re really proud of these scores,” Pol­lock said. “It will be inter­est­ing to see as a whole how the state did.”

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