The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce (ODEW) plans to release its annual report cards on Sept. 15, giving the public a look at the performance of the state’s public schools.
ODEW collects information from the state’s more than 600 public school districts and sorts the data into six categories: achievement, progress, early literacy, gap closing, graduation and readiness (college, career, workforce, military). Beginning in 2022, the state shifted away from an A-F letter grade system to new categories and calculations based on a star system.
The report card comes as the state struggles to contain chronic absenteeism and raise its benchmark math and reading scores — metrics that all took a hit during the COVID-19 pandemic. And in September, the National Center for Education Statistics released a report showing that high schoolers in the United States earned their lowest marks on reading and math since 2005.
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The Dispatch will collect and analyze central Ohio school districts’ scores once they are released; check back later for more information.
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: How did central Ohio school districts do on the state report card?
