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NL ratings top in area
By Mary Madewell
Published August 2, 2009
North Lamar Independent School District topped all other districts in the county and the Red River Valley in state accountability ratings released late Friday by the Texas Education Agency.
North Lamar received a Recognized ranking as a district, the second highest rating in the accountability system, and four of its six campuses received Exemplary ratings.
“We are pretty pleased,” superintendent James Dawson said Saturday. “You have to give credit to teachers, administrators, curriculum people and all the paraprofessionals. And, of course, you can’t leave out parents and students. It’s a combined effort.”
Dawson said the district missed the Exemplary mark by 1 percentage point in science and by 5 percentage points on one Economically Disadvantaged sub-group tally.
The four North Lamar campuses receiving Exemplary ratings include Higgins Elementary, Parker Elementary, Cecil Everett Elementary and Bailey Intermediate. Both North Lamar High School and Frank Stone Middle School received Recognized ratings.
Rivercrest Independent School District in Delta County also received Recognized status with its three campuses all ranked Recognized.
Paris Independent School District received a first time ever Academically Unacceptable district rating.
“It wasn’t because of our test scores,” deputy superintendent Mark Hudson said Saturday. “Most of our test scores are either in the exemplary or recognized range.”
A new indicator — completion rate — landed the district in the substandard group. The completion rate is calculated on the percentage of students who graduate high school based on 2008 numbers. To be acceptable, 75 percent of a class must graduate. Hudson said students who received General Equivalency Diplomas (GEDs) are not counted as having completed high school.
PISD scored a 73.6 percent completion rate overall with a subgroup, Academically Disadvantaged, scoring 65.8 percent.
“We put some measures in place this past year that we believe will help our completion rate,” Hudson said. Alternative education students behind in class work but not severe discipline problems have been moved to the high school campus from the alternative PASS program on Lamar Avenue to have access to elective courses.
“We hope this will motivate these students to complete their coursework,” Hudson said.
All other county and area districts received Academically Acceptable ratings. Individual campus ratings follow:
•Chisum Elementary was rated Exemplary; Chisum Middle School, Recognized; and Chisum High School, Academically Acceptable;
Roxton Elementary was rated Recognized and Roxton High School, Academically Acceptable;
Prairiland Junior High received Exemplary; Blossom Elementary, Recognized; Deport, Exemplary; and Prairiland High School, Academically Acceptable;
Cooper Elementary, Exemplary; Cooper High School, Recognized; Cooper Junior High, Academically Acceptable;
Fannindel Elementary, Exemplary and Fannindel High School, Academically Acceptable;
Clarksville high school, middle school and elementary all were ranked Academically Acceptable;
Detroit Elementary ranked Recognized with both the high school and junior high ranked Academically Acceptable;
Honey Grove Middle School and the elementary received Recognized status while the high school ranked Academically Acceptable.
To receive an Exemplary rating, at least 90 percent of students in every subject area and in all subgroups must pass. At lease 75 percent of students in all subgroups must pass all tests for campuses to be Recognized.
Academically Acceptable rankings vary by subject — 70 percent must pass reading/English Language Arts; 70 percent writing; 70 percent social studies; 55 percent mathematics and 50 percent, science. Subgroups include African American, Hispanic, White and Economically Disadvantaged.
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