Mount Ayr elementary again ‘high performing’
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At last week’s school board meeting, elementary principal Chris Elwood reported that Mount Ayr Elementary School has once again been rated a “high-perforning school” by the Iowa Department of Education (IDOE) in its newly-released School Performance Profile.
Mount Ayr scored 63.89 points out of a possible 100 to attain the rating. The state average is 54.91.
Only 12.67 percent of Iowa schools have achieved the “high performing” rating. (The top rating – “Exceptional” – was given to only the top 2.07 percent of schools.)
According to IDOE, “The overall performance includes both the overall score and performance rating for all Iowa schools across a number of performance measures.”
Mount Ayr Elementary students performed higher than the state average on all nine accountability indicators measured to arrive at a final rating:
• Participation in reading assessment
MA State
100 99.35
• Participation in math assessment
MA State
100 99.37
• Percent proficient in reading
MA State
79.89 75.32
• Percent proficient in math
MA State
84.92 76.25
• Average student achievement in reading
MA State
50.3 50
• Average student achievement in math
MA State
52.27 50
• Growth in reading
MA State
60 50
• Growth in math
66.5 49
• Conditions for learning composite
MA State
54.1 47.46
Schools are rated in six tiers based upon their overall scores:
Exceptional
66.31+
High performing
60.61-66.30
Commendable
54.91-60.60
Acceptable
49.21-54.90
Needs improvement
43.96-49.20
Priority/comprehensive
<43.95
The Iowa School Performance Profile replaces the former Iowa School Report Card as explained by IDOE:
“With the goal of having one report card that meets both state and federal requirements, the Iowa Department of Education merged components of the Iowa School Report Card into the new Iowa School Performance Profiles in the spring of 2019. The Iowa School Report Card is no longer a stand-alone website.”
Full details for Iowa schools can be found at www.iaschoolperformance.gov.
