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Cherokee County projects record CCRPI gains; district cites largest progress increases
Summary
Dr. Heath presented the district's projected CCRPI scores, reporting a projected district single score of 87 and strong gains in content mastery and progress across elementary, middle and high schools; district awaits final calculations from the governor's office.
Dr. Heath, presenting the Cherokee County School District's state accountability summary, told the board the district is projecting an overall single CCRPI score of 87, which he said would be the highest on record since the current calculations began in 2018. "We're projecting for the district an overall single score of 87," he said.
The report broke the index into five areas: content mastery, progress, closing gaps, readiness and graduation. Dr. Heath said the district saw its strongest gains in content mastery and progress: content mastery increased by roughly four points in both middle and high school, and the progress category rose by 4 or more points across elementary, middle and high school, with middle-school progress increasing about 4.7 points compared with last year.
Dr. Heath also noted strong subgroup performance in the closing-gaps metric, reporting a score of 100 for both middle and high school in that category and saying English-language learners and students with disabilities exceeded state targets in multiple areas.
At the elementary level, Dr. Heath reported a projected single score of 85.3, with a small decrease of about 0.3 in the readiness metric and a slight drop in the percent of students reading at or above grade level. For middle schools he reported a projected 86 overall and said five of seven middle schools improved in readiness. For high schools he said the projected single score is 89.8, with an 8.6-point increase in progress compared with last year and increases in graduation rates at every high school.
Board members asked what supports the district is providing in areas that did not show gains. In response, Dr. Heath described investments in new ELA and math instructional resources, short, grade-level professional-development sessions for teachers, targeted in-school PLC (professional learning community) support, and a Cherokee Instructional Leaders cohort of about 300 teachers to deepen instructional strategy and align school improvement plans.
Dr. Mary Elizabeth Davis, the superintendent, and Dr. Heath said the district's projections rely on the governor's office calculations; the board will receive final CCRPI scores when the governor's office releases the official numbers in the coming weeks.
