On Monday, the Georgia Department of Education released its annual College and Career Ready Performance Index, Georgia’s primary accountability metric for its primary and secondary schools. Every system school made appreciable progress, and large leaps in particular were made by Lyerly and Summerville Middle Schools.
WZQZ will have reports on Trion City Schools’ recent CCRPI improvements in newscasts later this week.

CCRPI replaced the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) metric when the U.S. Department of Education granted Georgia’s waiver from NCLB on Feb. 9, 2012. CCRPI scores individuals schools and their umbrella districts with an easy to understand 100-point scale. A school and district’s overall score is made up of three major areas: up to 70 points for Achievement, up to 15 points for Progress, and up to 15 points for Achievement Gap. In addition to the three major areas, schools with a significant number of Economically Disadvantaged students, English Learner students, and Students with Disabilities receive up to 10 “Challenge Points” to their score, as well as additional points when students participate in college and career readiness programs.
CCRPI also provides ratings for financial efficiency and school climate which are for the public’s information only but are not factored into the school’s overall CCRPI score.
The Chattooga County school system received an overall grade of 70.6, or a C- (To see the individual scores of each constituent school, see below). This is the Chattooga County’s highest score on the index since it was created. It is an improvement on each of the district’s past scores of 66.6 in 2017, 59.8 in 2016, 65.3 in 2015, 67.1 in 2014, 63.4 in 2013, and 56.6 in 2012.
According to Monday’s report, Chattooga County schools has an enrollment of 3,022 students, which is within the range of 3,000-3,100 that has persisted since at least 2012.
Of the three grade clusters, Elementary, Middle, and High, the improvement in the district’s score is largely thanks to a 13.8-point quantum leap (from 69.5 in 2017 to 83.3 in 2018) in the scores for the county’s three middle schools. The elementary schools’ aggregate score came up 3.5 points (63.1 in 2017 to 66.6 in 2018), and the high school’s score rose 1.2 points (66.5 in 2017 to 67.7 in 2018).
The leap in the middle school cluster is the result of Lyerly’s middle grades jumping 10.3 points (75.6 in 2017 to 85.9 in 2018) and Summerville Middle School jumping 14.8 points (67 in 2017 to 81.8 in 2018). Those schools are now on par with Menlo’s middle grades, which have been in the B range since 2016, and still added 2 points to their most recent score (81.4 in 2017 to 83.4 in 2018).
The system’s lowest-scoring school is the Chattooga Academy at 28 points even, the county’s alternative school which serves students with unique obstacles to academic success, such as transferring in from asymmetrical school systems, returning to school after dropping out, and other situations.
The Academy, however, does not heavily influence the county’s composite score because of its low enrollment. Of the other county schools, the lowest-scoring was Leroy Massey Elementary, which did well with closing Achievement Gaps among its students but struggled considerably with Content Mastery, trailing the system in that section.

The county was led in the Content Mastery section by Menlo Elementary at 74.9. In the Progress section, Lyerly Elementary led with 93.7, and in Closing Gaps, Menlo Elementary, Menlo middle grades, and Lyerly Elementary all tied at 87.5. In Readiness, Lyerly Elementary led with 84.6.

 

See the 2018 CCRPI report below.

DISTRICT DEMOGRAPHICS

AMERICAN INDIAN / ALASKAN NATIVE 0.1%
ASIAN / PACIFIC ISLANDER 0.2%
BLACK 8.6%
HISPANIC 6.2%
MULTI-RACIAL 5.8%
WHITE 79.1%
ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED 69.4%
ENGLISH LEARNERS 2.4%
STUDENTS WITH DISABILITY 19.4%

HOW DID THE DISTRICT PERFORM?

70.6

HOW DID EACH SCHOOL TYPE PERFORM?

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCORE 66.6
MIDDLE SCHOOL SCORE 83.3
HIGH SCHOOL SCORE 67.7