School Systems Receive Report Card

The State Department of Education recently released the new, redesigned state report card for 2017-18. The new report card is intended to help families better understand school performance and support student success. This tool was developed over the past year with educators, parents, and community organizations and includes several new features based on that feedback.
A school receives a rating on each indicator ranging from 0.0 to 4.0, like a GPA scale, with 4.0 being the highest.
The six indicators are academic achievement, whether students are performing on grade level or above based on state tests; student academic growth, whether students are making progress from year to year, regardless of whether they are on grade level yet; chronically out of school, students who miss at least 10 percent of school days; progress on English language proficiency, whether English learners are making progress in their understanding of the English language; ready graduate, the percentage of high school students who graduate and earn at least a 21 on the ACT or 1060 on the SAT.
Manchester Schools:
In academic achievement, the district scored 41.6 percent, which is above the state’s 39. 1 percent average.
City schools scored a level 5 in overall student academic growth.
About 11.5 percent of Manchester students were chronically out of school, an increase of 0.4 percent from 2016-17. The state average is 13.3 percent.
Manchester schools excelled in their progress on English language proficiency earning a 57.3 percent, which is above the state’s 50.4 percent average.
Coffee County Schools:
Academic achievement, 38.2 percent, 0.4 percent higher than last year.
Like Manchester, the county scored level five for overall student academic growth.
8.3 percent of Coffee County school system students were chronically absent, down from last year’s 11 percent.
The county scored 5.2 percent higher, 42.9 in Progress on English language proficiency.
Coffee County is just under the state average in the ready graduate category. Coffee County scored 34.2 percent, with the state average being 35.8 percent.
The Coffee County school system graduation rate is 90.8 percent. The rate last year was 91.1 percent.
Starting in 2019, a Tennessee state law will require the department to assign each school a letter grade.