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Worthington Schools announces top special-education rating; statewide kindergarten cutoff set to change
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Trent Bowers told the board Worthington received a 2025 special-education rating of 'meets requirements,' the highest rating under state indicators, and warned a new Ohio law standardizing kindergarten admission (students must turn 5 by the first day of school) will affect local registrations.
Worthington Schools Superintendent Dr. Trent Bowers told the Board of Education on Nov. 24 that the district earned a rating of “meets requirements” in the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce’s 2025 special education annual rating—an outcome he described as the highest rating a district can earn under the state’s indicators tied to IDEA data for the 2023–24 school year.
Bowers thanked the special education department, teachers and staff for their work and described the rating as based on indicators that include compliance,…
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