How Would You Rank Twinsburg Schools? (POLL)
Despite high scores, Twinsburg was rated "Excellent" by the Ohio Department of Education.
The Twinsburg City School District was rated "Excellent" by the Ohio Department of Education this week.
The grade was based off the district's performance over the 2011-12 school year.
That rating ended the district's streak of having an "Excellent With Distinction" ranking four years straight.
While it lost the "Distinction" tag, school officials still believe the district is performing well.
Twinsburg met all 26 performance indicators and scored a 106.2 on the state's performance index, one of the best scores in the state.
However, because the district only met the yearly growth rate and did not go above in the category, it can only be rated "Excellent."
Some fear that the recent $3.2 million in cuts and changes have already affected the district and will hurt it moving forward.
Take our poll and be sure to share your thoughts in the comments section below.
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Dave
7:28 am on Friday, October 19, 2012
What a useless poll. How does anyone know what these rankings mean? It is only an opinion. If you understand how the state calculates the report card, it is nearly impossible to continue at an Excellent with Distanction ranking. As you meet that level, you keep pushing your goal higher which becomes nearly impossible to meet. As for the thinking that the cuts have already caused the district to slip, this is false propoganda. Those cuts did not affect last year's performance. This is terrible because now the district will use this thinking to convince voters they need this money to keep performing at a high level. The truth is that they do not need the money. This is all a false belief that school funding from the state is going to zero. Don't believe them!
Mitch Cooper
9:38 am on Friday, October 19, 2012
Dave, thanks for your thoughts. The comments I've heard about the cuts affecting the rating were from people in the community. I've made sure to clarify that the ratings were based on 2011-12 performance, thus not influenced by any of the cuts or changes.
Jackie
1:52 pm on Friday, October 19, 2012
The previous comment is right on. No school system can continually get EWD year after year. The system isn't designed as such. Look at the scores of the schools that did get EWD rating and compare with Twinsburgs current results. (Our scores are higher than most in that list). I wish ODE would make EWD clearer.