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Rice Lake board: district 'meeting expectations' with score of 64; members press for clearer DPI measures and more student credentials
Summary
The Rice Lake Area School District board reviewed DPI school and district report cards Nov. 24. The district received an overall score of 64 (meeting expectations); board members pressed staff on growth weighting, chronic absenteeism trends and strategies to increase industry-recognized credentials for high school students.
The Rice Lake Area School District board spent a substantial portion of its Nov. 24 meeting reviewing the Department of Public Instruction’s newly issued school and district report cards, with a DPI presenter saying, “We are rated at the same level as we were last year meeting expectations with an overall score of 64.” Board members sought explanations of how the composite score is calculated and how the district can use the data to target improvements.
The presentation explained that the report-card score is made up of four priority areas — achievement, growth, target-group outcomes and on-track-to-graduation — and that weighting shifts according to the percentage of economically disadvantaged students. The presenter noted the district’s economically disadvantaged percentage at 42.3%, which increases the…
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