Riverside Local holds 3½-star district rating; report card flags slow progress and chronic absenteeism

Katie Glenweber, the district’s new curriculum supervisor, told the Riverside Local Board of Education the district earned a 3.5-star overall rating on the state’s 2025 report card and remained “very similar” to last year on the performance index.

The rating reflected four stars in achievement, gap closing and graduation; three stars in early literacy; two stars in progress; and mixed building-level results, with Riverview and Mel Ridge scoring four stars and Buckeye and Parkside scoring four and a half stars, Glenweber said.

Why it matters: the state report card determines how the district measures up on student achievement, growth and several other metrics used by families, staff and state education officials. Board members and staff said the results will guide curriculum choices, interventions and longer-term facility and program planning.

Glenweber, who led the presentation, said the district’s performance index was 90.2 this year (90.5 last year) and that the district’s performance-index percentage is calculated against the top 2% of schools statewide. “Achievement in a nutshell is how our students are performing on the OSTs,”…