The hard work put in during the 2008-2009 school year by our district’s staff, students and administrators has resulted in the district’s first-ever “Excellent” designation on the Ohio Department of Education’s Report Card. Meeting 26 of the 30 state indicators helped elevate the district from “Effective” to “Excellent.” Four of Lakewood’s schools – Garfield and Harding middle schools and Grant and Lincoln elementary schools – also earned an “Excellent” rating. “You have done an amazing job and you should be very proud,” Superintendent P. Joseph Madak told the district staff gathered at their convocation on Aug. 25 to kick off the school year.
Lakewood High School, which has earned and Excellent rating each year since 2004, met all 12 of its state indicators. However, because the school failed to meet its Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) goals, it has been rated a “Continuous Improvement” school despite its students achieving beyond the state minimums in all categories. “We must not let AYP get in the way of celebrating LHS’ accomplishments,” Dr. Madak said. The AYP facet measures the progress a school is making toward the federal 2013-2014 goal of 100 percent compliance in student performance by all groups in all schools.
The district also exceeded the state’s value-added measure, which looks at a student’s progress from the start of the school year to the end. The positive rating in this measure for the district means that our children are learning above the level of the expected yearly progress.
Besides the district’s “Excellent” schools, Hayes, Horace Mann and Emerson elementaries achieved “Effective” ratings and Harrison and Roosevelt elementaries and Lakewood City Academy are ranked “Continuous Improvement.”
The state determines its designation based on four measures: state indicators, of which the district met 26 of 30; performance index, or the level of achievement of every student, of which the district scored 96.4 out of 120; AYP, which the district did not meet; and value-added measure, which the district exceeded.
To look more closely at the 2008-2009 Report Cards, please click here.
For Lakewood City Academy results, click here.
Check out this Channel 19 segment on Lakewood's success: