Elle Moxley and Kyle Stokes - StateImpact Indiana
Nearly two-thirds of Indiana school corporations received the same letter grade ranking in 2013 as they did in 2012.
State Board of Education members approved the grades at this morning’s brief business meeting. The number of districts receiving A’s remained virtually unchanged from last year, though more school corporations received B’s in 2013 than 2012.
“This is another indicator of the quality of education in Indiana,” said board member David Freitas during Wednesday’s meeting. “It’s moving in the right direction.”
Only board member Andrea Neal voted against approving the grades.
The grades rate a district’s overall performance but do not carry penalties under the state’s accountability system the way individual school letter grades do. Those rankings were released last month.
No school district improved or fell more than two letter grades. All five corporations that slipped two rankings went from A’s to C’s. There were 13 districts that improved two letters — most of those saw their grades jump from C’s to A’s.
You can find your school district’s 2013 letter grade here.
