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Wooster City Schools reports overall '2'report-card rating of 4; awarded multi-year literacy subgrant
Summary
District presenters told the board the state report card rated the district an overall 4, highlighted a five-star gap-closing result and outlined a multi-year comprehensive literacy subgrant the district will use for training, materials and partial salary support.
Curriculum team members presented the Wooster City Schools' state report-card results and a newly awarded comprehensive literacy state subgrant, saying the district received an overall rating of 4 and that the grant will fund professional development, intervention training and some personnel costs over the next four years.
"We are overall rating this year as a 4," said a curriculum team presenter identified in the meeting as Ms. Richard during the board presentation. The presenters credited staff across instruction, intervention and EMIS reporting for the result.
Key report-card data the presenters shared included an overall performance-index score of 86.2 (up from 85 the prior year), a progress rating of four stars, and a five-star rating for the gap-closing component. Presenters said the district's early-literacy composite was 73.3 percent; 68 percent of third graders were proficient or above on the third-grade state test; and 44.4 percent of students were recorded as improving K—2 literacy. Presenters also said the district's four-year graduation-rate projection would be 97.8 percent and the five-year rate 95.8 percent, which the presenters said should increase the graduation component rating next year.
On the new college-career-workforce-and-military-readiness component, presenters said Wooster rose from 58.6 last year to 66.3 this year and projected the district could report 78.1 next year under current pathways (honors diploma, industry credentials, CCP/dual enrollment, remediation-free ACT scores, AP scores, CTE assessments, the OhioMeansJobs seal and documented work-study hours).
Presenters highlighted the district's gap-closing work and said the district is continuing to focus on students with disabilities where the indicator has room to improve. The EMIS coordinator (identified in the meeting transcript as Lori Nero) was credited for reporting refinements that helped the district meet hard-to-reach indicators.
District staff told the board they received a competitive comprehensive literacy state subgrant that funds a multi-year program. The grant will support Orton-Gillingham/IMSE-aligned training for intervention staff, scope-and-sequence work days, instructional materials (with particular needs noted at Edgewood), coaching and some community-engagement activities such as Read Under the Lights. Presenters said the grant will pay 50 percent of a full-time reading teacher's salary at Edgewood (named in the meeting as Amber Yacaparra) and can be budgeted across four years. The presenters said the grant is substantial, will require significant administrative effort to meet reporting requirements, and will fund time cards, professional development and materials.
Board members asked for and were told the district has data showing children who attended preschool or kindergarten screening perform significantly better on the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA) and that the district can provide more-detailed breakdowns if the board requests them.
The presenters said they would post the slide presentation online and that grant and report-card materials will be shared publicly through the district's communication channels.
