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Shenandoah County briefed on new Virginia school accountability model and proposed higher SOL cut scores
Summary
Director of instruction Monica Heingartner told the Shenandoah County School Board that Virginia's new school performance framework replaces the old accreditation model with a mastery/growth/readiness composite and the state is proposing higher cut scores on Standards of Learning exams that could sharply reduce current pass rates.
Monica Heingartner, Shenandoah County Public Schools director of instruction, told the school board on Sept. 11 that Virginia is shifting from the previous accreditation system to a new School Performance and Support Framework that scores schools on mastery, growth and readiness and assigns each school a summative category: Distinguished, On Track, Off Track or Needs Intensive Support.
Heingartner said mastery reflects SOL achievement, growth measures year-to-year progress and readiness captures engagement and post‑high‑school indicators such as enrollment, employment or enlistment at the high‑school level. She said the framework is intended to provide a “holistic view of school quality that connects results to support.”
The presentation focused on how the change will be calculated for Shenandoah County schools and the potential impact of a separate state proposal to raise cut scores on the SOL tests. Heingartner said the state Board of Education is considering higher cut scores that, if adopted, would take effect for spring administrations and could lower many…
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