Greendale Schools Exceed State's Expectations in Report Cards
All five of Greendale Schools exceed the state's expectations with grades between 75.7 to 78.1
All five schools in the Greendale School District exceeded the state expectations as measured by new preliminary school report cards issued by the Wisconsin Department of Public instruction.
Grades were given on a 100-point maximum scale. Scores between 83-100 means a school significantly exceeds expectations; 73-82.9 exceeds expectations; 63-72.9 meets expectations and so on.
Under the new system, schools will be graded in these areas:
- Student achievement in reading and mathematics on state assessments.
- Student growth measured by year-to-year improvements in achievement.
- Closing gaps in performance between specific student groups.
- Progress to graduation/post secondary readiness using reliable predictors of high school graduation and post-secondary success.
The scores are also detailed in an 18-page report on each school. The DPI scoring uses last year’s data.
Schools are scored on four categories: student achievement, student growth, closing gaps and on-track and postsecondary readiness.
Here are the Greendale Schools grades:
- Canterbury Elementary School (75.7)
- College Park Elementary School (78.1)
- Highland View Elementary School (76.3)
- Greendale Middle School (75.9)
- Greendale High School (77.3)
The report cards will be issued each year as part of a new statewide accountability system that is designed to provide a more complete and balanced picture of school performance that can be used as a guide for school improvement. The accountability system is part of a package of educational reforms that also includes development of a new state achievement test, a new data system and new teacher evaluation methods.
Kim Amidzich, Director of Assessment & Learning, said at Monday's school board meeting that the Greendale schools are underperforming in closing the gap compared to neighboring schools but will continue to work towards improvement.
"Some did better with growth, some thing better in achievement, some did better with closing the gap," Amidzich said.
Amidzich said they will focus on quality personalized instruction to maximize student learning.
She also said a few schools reached the high level of significantly exceeded expectations. About 68 out the 2100 graded ones reached that level.
Robert Bates
8:38 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
What will this look like next year? Greendale Public Schools has had a rocky start and as teachers are saying, morale is down and the administration is missing.
Lisa417
10:02 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
So a letter grade of D+ to C.
Jason Patzfahl
6:32 am on Tuesday, October 23, 2012
With grades between 73-82.9 exceeding expectations and no school in Greendale receiving a grade below 75, don't see how the Greendale School district should get a letter grade of D or C, meaning below average. The grading scale used by the WI DPI is different than the classroom grading scale - in a classroom test, many students may receive a 100, but in the DPI scale if a school receives a perfect score, that would mean each and every student significantly exceeded all expectations in all four categories - This wouldn't happen at a Harvard honors class.
The Greendale School District is one of the reasons my family moved to Greendale, and though it is far from perfect (as are all districts) it fares much better than neighboring Greenfield and Oak Creek.
Gene
11:31 am on Wednesday, October 24, 2012
School administration is still refusing to aknowledge the bully problem at GHS openly, and bashing other school districts only shows the snobby attidude of many Greendale residents.
Greendale MOM
7:07 pm on Thursday, October 25, 2012
Our Rights:
Why are you surprised or writing about this? It isn't a snobby attitude. They don't know what to do. Why don't you call you elected official and let them know how things are falling apart?
Did you read that the Greendale Public Schools are going to buy another building for the custodians? People are in the know and just waiting for election day.
Gene
11:45 am on Friday, October 26, 2012
Hi Greendale Mom,
I am not surprised at all, just voicing my opinion. However when someone disrespects another district and is basically saying their district is better true or not, it comes off as sounding snobby at least to me.
If they dont know what to do, ask for help like most people. If they dont know how to do their job they should not be there.
GHS administration including the elected officials are afraid of getting a black eye over recent events and are silent over them. Their bubble over the school isn’t so shiny and hopefully the voters will realize that on Election Day.
I know one board member was quick to spout off about expelling a student recently however is not saying a word about how to fix the root of that problem. Hopefully he will be dismissed on election day as he has dimissed the real issues.
As for the custodians getting a new building, whats wrong with the space they have now. Are there so many more custodial duties that they need more space. Is there that much more broken equipment to fix or equipment to store. Perhaps we need to look at why some much more stuff is in need the custodians attention and solve that problem before we spend money on a building.
Again just my opinion.
Charles Duncan
9:33 pm on Thursday, October 25, 2012
Greendalers: A check of the State of Wisconsin's web site on these report cards will show the discriminating reader, the schools are dropping, especially some of them. If we read the press releases, the district administrator and board members are silent again. What a surprise. What do they do in their meetings and work during the day - especially the district administrator? He seems to be missing in action, except when it is time to cash his pay check.
Duane Lansen
1:03 pm on Saturday, October 27, 2012
The Greendale Patch Reporter should schedule interviews with the school board members and ask them to respond - as public officials, for themselves. Not with their PR Machine sitting there writing their responses for them. There is quite a bit of discussion of the state of the public schools in our fair village among residents.
John Goodsee
8:13 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
We think Lansen's idea of the Patch interviewing school board members - without their paid staff sitting with them is a great idea. Will the Greendale Patch Reporters do this? Will the school board members, especially the ones up for election this spring attend a meeting like this?