Report card scores are in for the 2024-25 school year, and Stanley-Boyd once against makes the cut.
“The quick summary is that all our schools in our district meet expectations,” district superintendent Jeff Koenig said. “All of our scores are up slightly. We continue to have the strongest areas in both achievement and on track to graduation.”
Stanley Boyd Elementary did the best with a score of 70.4 or “Meets Expectations,” while Stanley-Boyd High School scored 62.7 or “Meets Expectations.” Stanley-Boyd Middle School scored 69.4 or “Meets Expectations,” up from 68.6 last year, while the district’s overall report card for last school year shows a score of 67.5, or “Meets Expectations,” up from 64.3 the year previous.
Koenig said state report card rules were changed slightly from last year, the state raising the cutline by one point, making it one point harder to earn “meets expectations,” and requiring a score of 71 needed to earn “exceeds expectations.”
“One change from last year is because our poverty—economically disadvantaged number—has gone down slightly, our growth score counts for less,” he said. “You can’t really compare testing data from last year because the norms were all changed. But that kind of tells me our scores are still strong, they didn’t change a lot, but that is no longer as much as a percentage of the score, because our free and reduced lunch population has done down,” measured across the district as a whole.
Koenig said that growth was a larger percentage of the elementary score, one possible reason being that “as students get older they tend not to turn in the free and reduced lunch applications.”
State report card scores are based on weighted averages across four different categories and do not represent a letter grade.
As for the details of how report scores are arrived at, each of the four weighted categories (achievement, growth, target outcomes, and on track to graduation) is further divided into sub categories, with “achievement” and “growth” both measuring English language arts and mathematics skills, while “target group outcomes” weighs achievement, growth, chronic absenteeism, and graduation to arrive at its number. “On track to graduation” is measured by taking chronic absenteeism, graduation, third grade english language arts, and eighth grade mathematics into account. English language arts and math are divided into “advanced,” “meeting,” “approaching,” and developing” for skill levels.
Districts that are high poverty receive more of their score weight from growth, while those with less poverty have state report card grades weighted towards achievement. Applications for free and reduced lunch are down in Stanley-Boyd, affecting the percentage weight for “growth.”
Priority grade weights for the Stanley-Boyd district overall are 30.2 percent in growth, 19.8 percent for achievement, 25 percent in target outcomes, and 25 percent for on track to graduation. Koenig said the district’s strong areas are achievement and on track to graduation, with the district overall scoring 71.4 for achievement, 49.9 for growth, 60.8 for target group outcomes, and 92.3 for on track to graduation. Test participation rates overall were 98.9 percent for both English language arts and math among all students districtwide.