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District staff explain new Florida school-grade calculations, flag third-grade ELA and science as priorities
Summary
Dr. Greg Laws walked the school board through FloridaDepartment of Education school- and district-grade components, thresholds and data rules, identifying third-grade ELA, learning gains and science as focus areas and noting state changes that raise the high-school/district A threshold to 65 percent.
Dr. Greg Laws, the districtschool accountability presenter, briefed the Martin County School Board at its Aug. 5 workshop on how the Florida Department of Education calculates school and district grades and on local areas the district will target for growth.
Laws outlined how elementary, middle and high school grades are constructed from multiple componentsachievement and learning gains in English/language arts (ELA) and math, science and social studies components, middle-school acceleration and high-school college and career acceleration and graduation rate. He noted that some metrics lag a year and that certain components count twice (third-grade ELA appears in elementary and district calculations).
Laws said elementary schools combine component percentages that in his example total 61.5 (rounded to 62 for an A), middle schools need about 63.5 (rounded to…
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