Anthony Wayne earns 4.5-star state rating; district ranked 30th in Ohio by performance index

Anthony Wayne Local Schools earned an overall 4.5-star rating on the Ohio Department of Education's report card, district officials told the board on Oct. 3, citing a performance index (PI) score of approximately 104.2 that ranked the district 30th out of 607 public districts statewide.

Jim Connor, the district's director of teaching and learning, reviewed the components used to determine the report-card rating, describing six main criteria contributing to the overall score: achievement, progress, gap closing, graduation rate, early literacy and, for the first time this year, college-career-workforce-military readiness. Connor said about 6,500 state tests were administered across the district and explained how tests are assigned performance levels (advanced plus, advanced, accomplished, basic, limited) that feed the PI calculation.

Connor said Anthony Wayne's achievement component produced a PI percentage that placed the district in a 5-star tier for that element and that the district's overall PI percentage was 94.9. He encouraged the public to consult the Department of Education's data files and the district's quality profile for building-level context and noted the state website link he referenced would be double-checked because the site had intermittent glitches earlier that day (00:58:35).

Connor provided building-level context, noting that some buildings placed in top statewide percentiles on achievement, and emphasized the importance of teachers, students and families in producing the results. The board recognized the academic and extracurricular work reflected in the quality profile and said the district would continue to publicize the report-card materials for community review.