Thursday, February 09, 2012

GCS News Release

Posted December 07, 2004

School Report Card Ratings 2003/2004
Summary Report Cards by School
Detail Report Cards by School

54 Greenville County Schools Rated Excellent or Good on School Report Cards

Higher Rating Requirements Begin with 2004 Report Cards

Greenville, SC – Fifty-four Greenville County schools received an Excellent or Good Absolute Rating on 2004 School Report Cards despite higher rating requirements.

The School Report Card rates schools and school districts based on student achievement. The Report Card includes two ratings -- an Absolute Rating, which indicates student achievement measured against the State target level (2010 goal) of performance, and an Improvement Rating, which shows the progress of achievement scores for the same students from one year to the next. For ratings, schools and districts receive a designation of Excellent, Good, Average, Below Average, or Unsatisfactory.

This is the first year that the School Report Card includes higher requirements to determine a school’s Absolute Rating. Rating requirements increase one-tenth of one point each year beginning this year. This means that it is more difficult for a school to obtain an Excellent, Good or Average rating. The impact is cumulative over time.

“We are pleased that almost two-thirds of our schools (62%) received either an Excellent or Good Absolute rating, the two highest possible ratings.” said District Superintendent Dr. Phinnize J. Fisher. “Our State accountability system, ranked among the toughest in the nation and based on achievement requirements that increase each year beginning this year, requires continuous improvement in student achievement for schools to improve or at least maintain their current ratings. Parents, students, teachers, administrators, and other staff at each school are working as a team to ensure that all students are learning.”

Results for South Carolina schools released by the State Department this morning include 19 Greenville County public schools that received an Absolute rating of Excellent and 35 schools that received an Absolute rating of Good. Twenty-two local schools rated Average. Eleven schools, or 12 percent, did not receive at least an Average rating. Among those schools, nine rated Below Average and two rated Unsatisfactory. The school system, as a whole, received an Absolute Rating of Good.

Improvement ratings remained virtually the same as last year with 24 schools receiving a rating of Excellent or Good. Seven received a rating of Average and 19 schools rated Below Average. Thirty-seven schools rated Unsatisfactory, a decrease of seven schools from 2003 results.

School and District Report Cards will be sent home beginning today. All parents should receive their Report Cards no later than Monday, December 13.

School Report Card Ratings 2003/2004
2004 School Report Cards by School

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