The State Department of Education recently released their new system rating which shows more than half of Alaskan schools rating four or five stars.
In his Kenai Peninsula Borough School District quarterly report at the borough assembly meeting, Superintendent Dr. Steve Atwater said district enrollment is going up and went over district schools star ratings.
Atwater: “Overall if you sort of extrapolate this and add up all the stars which is the only way I can make sense of this, we’ve gained more stars this year than we did they year before, so that’s positive. If the maximum number of stars you can gain is 215, we’re moving in the right direction so I think the state is happy about that.”
He also said the number of teens graduating after four years of high school increased to 81.4 between last year and this year.
Of the 501 schools rated statewide, 75 earned five out of five stars and 198 earned four stars. This system has replaced the “adequate yearly progress” under the No Child Left Behind Act and schools which received three stars or less were required to submit improvement plans.
Those ratings were based on proficiency and improvement rates in reading, writing, and math; overall attendance; and graduation rates and scores on college prep for high school students.