Progress vs. Performance

Another nice report by KidsOhio.org is now available on their Web site titled "Analysis Shows Ohio's 8 Large Urban Districts and Charter Schools Rank Higher on Educational Progress Than on Absolute Test Scores."

KidsOhio.org ranked Ohio’s public schools - both traditional district schools and charter schools - according to their Performance Index scores (measuring student achievement on state tests in a given year) and their Value-Added Gain scores (the state’s measure of students’ academic progress from year to year). The analysis covered the 2,688 Ohio schools that received scores for both measures in 2008, and the data revealed that:

• Ohio 8 district schools ranked, on average, 2,199 out of 2,688 schools on test scores, but jumped 663 places to an average ranking of 1,536 on student progress.
  
• Charter schools taken as a group had an average ranking of 2,288 on test scores, but an average ranking of 1,362 on student progress, an increase of 926 places.

The following chart shows the data for the 8 urban school districts. Cincinnati Public Schools comes out particularly well with the highest value-added gain rank of all at 332.

The entire report, tables, and charts are available at KidsOhio.org.

Source: KidsOhio.org