State Report Card final; BW Excellent With Distinction

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

It was already com­mon knowl­edge, but noth­ing was set in cement until the state inves­ti­ga­tion into school dis­tricts fal­si­fy­ing stu­dent infor­ma­tion to enhance their state report card was com­plete; but dur­ing Mon­day evening’s Big Wal­nut Local School Dis­trict Board of Edu­ca­tion meet­ing Dis­trict Direc­tor of Aca­d­e­mic Achieve­ment Angie Pol­lock reported that all 2011-12 State of Ohio Report Cards are now official.

Pol­lock said it’s finally con­firmed that Big Wal­nut is one of the 138 Ohio school dis­tricts out of the state’s 610 that have been rated Excel­lent With Dis­tinc­tion for the 2011-12 school year. Pol­lock also noted that the dis­trict has been rated Excel­lent for seven con­sec­u­tive years.

The Big Wal­nut dis­trict met 26 of 26 State Indi­ca­tors, had a 105.4 Per­for­mance Index, and met its AYP — Ade­quate Yearly Progress. Of note on the report card, as a school dis­trict Big Wal­nut had a 95.4 per­cent atten­dance rate, and a 92.9 per­cent four-year grad­u­a­tion rate as com­pared to the state aver­age grad­u­a­tion rate of 79.7 percent.

Big Wal­nut Ele­men­tary School, Gen­eral Rose­crans Ele­men­tary School and Hylen Soud­ers Ele­men­tary were all rated Excel­lent With Dis­tinc­tion. Big Wal­nut Mid­dle School received an Effec­tive rat­ing; Big Wal­nut High School was rated Excellent.

Pol­lock also noted that state report card changes are planned for next year, when the state will switch to an A to F measure.

“We’re prepar­ing for the changes, and we will work towards adapt­ing to that new mea­sure,” Pol­lock said. “But while we’re doing that we want to make cer­tain our stu­dents are growing.”

Pol­lock also noted the school dis­trict is pur­su­ing a TRECA Research & Design Grant that would uti­lize one class­room in each of the district’s six build­ings to explore deliv­er­ing cur­ricu­lum con­tent in ways other than the usual lec­ture model.

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