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Westerville City Schools drop to 3.5 stars on state report card; officials say district was narrowly short of 4 stars
Summary
District administrators told the school board Tuesday that Westerville—s overall 3.5-star rating reflects strong achievement and progress but weaknesses in early literacy and the new College, Career, Workforce and Military Readiness measure. Presenters said the district—s decimal score (3.094) fell just short of the 3.125 threshold for four stars.
Westerville City Schools received an overall 3.5-star rating on the state report card for the 2024—/25 cycle, district staff told the board Tuesday, a drop from last year—s four-star rating that administrators said came down to narrow margins in a few components.
Mark Cooper, a district staff member who presented the report-card findings, said the district—s underlying decimal score was 3.094 and that the state places that decimal on a cut-score table that produced the 3.5-star classification. "We were just shy of that 3.125 that's required for the overall 4 star rating," Cooper said.
The state report card rates six component areas: achievement, progress, gap closing, graduation rate, early literacy and the newly rated College, Career, Workforce and Military Readiness (CCWMR). Cooper said Westerville earned 4 stars in achievement and progress and a 93.9 percent four-year graduation rate. Those…
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