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Groveport Madison Local directors walk through Ohio school report card, flag early literacy as key gap
Summary
District directors Mike and Carol Morbitzer presented a public walkthrough of Groveport Madison Local’s Ohio school report card, noting overall 3.5 stars with strengths in progress and gap closing, a 2-star achievement rating, a 2-star early literacy result (K–3 literacy 27.2%), and expectations that some gains will appear on the 2026 card.
Groveport Madison Local officials on a public walkthrough described the district’s most recent Ohio school report card as the district’s best in two decades but said key gaps remain, especially in early literacy.
Mike Morbitzer, director of innovation and accountability, and Carol Morbitzer, director of instruction and achievement, guided parents and community members through the report card’s component pages, showing that the district’s overall rating is three and a half stars. "This is truly a report card to celebrate," Mike Morbitzer said, while also noting that achievement and early literacy continue to need focused work.
The walkthrough highlighted component-level results: the district earned four out of five stars for progress and four stars for gap closing, reflecting student growth and improvements among subgroups. "The green is evidence that the district met student growth expectations," Carol Morbitzer said, explaining the color-coded growth indicators that underpin the progress score.
By contrast, the achievement component is rated at two stars, which Morbitzer said indicates the district currently "needs support" to meet state academic standards. He explained how the performance index is calculated and how point weights differ by performance bands (for example, proficient carries full points and advanced bands include bonus weights), underscoring that raising the performance index depends on moving more students into higher performance bands.
Graduation outcomes were presented as a relative strength: the district’s four-year graduation rate is 90.8%, compared with 90.2% for similar districts and a statewide average of 87.9%, earning three stars for the graduation component.
Early literacy emerged as the most urgent concern. Carol Morbitzer said the K–3 literacy percentage is 27.2% and placed the early literacy component at two stars. She said the district has adopted the CKLA English language arts curriculum, increased progress monitoring and targeted interventions, but cautioned that the state’s early literacy metric is lagged: the 2024 report card reflects 2022–23 benchmark data, so the effects of current efforts are not expected to be visible until the 2026 report card.
On the college, career and workforce readiness measure, the district scored 63.3%, but that component was noted as informational for the current card and did not factor into this year’s overall stars; staff said it will be counted in future calculations and could raise the district’s overall rating.
The presenters also guided the audience to other report card features — individual school pages, gifted data, district detail (enrollment, absenteeism, mobility, staff), and data-download tools — and pointed to 21 years of archive data available on the state site for historical context.
District leaders framed the report card as both a milestone and a roadmap: they celebrated overall progress while highlighting early literacy and achievement as priorities for continued investment and monitoring. The district said it will continue implementing curriculum and monitoring plans and expects to review updated results when they appear on the 2026 Ohio school report card.
