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South Point Schools earns Excellent rating
SOUTH POINT — South Point School District earned a rating of Excellent on its 2007-08 report card.
The rating prompted Jane Sonenshein from the Ohio Board of Education to present banners to the district and to the middle school at an assembly last Friday at South Point High School, at which the entire student bodies of all the schools attended.
South Point School District met 19 of 30 state indicators and scored a 92.3 about of 120 on the performance index. In addition, every grade level from third through 10th (freshmen are not tested), excluding sixth met the state’s adequate yearly progress requirement of 75 percent in at least one subject. And sixth-grade students only missed the mark in reading by .2 percent. However, sixth-grade students also struggled in mathematics, with just 61.5 percent showing proficiency.
South Point and Burlington elementary schools also were recognized as “Schools of Promise” for reading. Third, fourth and fifth grades all exceeded the 75 percent requirement and outperformed students in the rest of state by reaching scores of 89.1 percent, 85.5 percent and 83 percent, respectively. State scores for those three grades all struggled to meet 80 percent, and fifth grade, statewide, did not meet AYP.
South Point’s report card also showed that the district is right on with the statewide attendance at 94.2 percent, exceeding the 93 percent requirement. But it fell just short of the required 90 percent graduation rate in 2006-07, with a score of 87.9 percent. Class of 2008 graduation rate was not listed.
The report card also showed that 11th-graders taking the Ohio Graduation Test are scoring well above the 85 percent requirements among the core subjects. South Point juniors scored a 91 percent in reading, 86. percent in math, 91 percent in writing and an 86.2 percent in science. Students fell just short of the mark in social studies with 83.5 percent.
Sophomores who took the graduation test struggled in math, science and social studies, but easily met the state requirement for reading and writing.
