ASSESSMENT
District Report Card
District Report Card
2012 STATE REPORT CARD
Once again Williamson County Schools has plenty to
be proud of according to
the Tennessee Department
of Education's 2012
State Report Card. The
yearly report provides a
profile of each school
district throughout the
state, using performance
on various standardized
assessments and
collected statistics to
award grades.
·
All A’s in 3-8
Achievement
·
All A’s in 5, 8, and 11
Writing
·
ACT Composite of 23.1
·
Three A’s and one B
(science) in 3-8
Academic Growth
·
At or above state growth
average in all 9-12
subjects
ACT Results
Williamson County students continue to outperform
their peers on the ACT
test. The district’s
graduating class of 2012
posted an ACT composite
score of 23.1, up 0.3
points from 2011 and a
step closer to achieving
the School Board goal of
24. Williamson County
Schools also outscored
the state average of
19.2 and the national
average of 21.1.
For more information on results, including
individual school
composites and college
benchmarks, see
IN FOCUS.
TCAP Results
Williamson County Schools is the highest achieving
district in the state
based on the 2012 TCAP
results. According to
the TCAP data posted on
the Tennessee Department
of Education's
WEBSITE, the district ranked first in the areas of
reading/language arts,
mathematics, science,
and social studies for
grades 3-8.
The high achievement continued for high school EOCs
as well, with Williamson
County Schools ranking
first in English I and
Biology I and second in
English II and Algebra
II. The district also
ranked high in Algebra I
and US History.
Achievement and Gap
Closure AMOs
Prior to the 2011-2012 school year, No
Child Left Behind (NCLB)
required schools and
districts to meet
specific measures known
as
Annual Yearly
Progress (AYP).
Tennessee has since
established a new
accountability system
through a NCLB waiver
that focuses on
increasing achievement
levels for all students
and reduce achievement
gaps that exist between
certain groups of
students. The
achievement and gap
targets under the new
system are referred to
as Annual Measureable
Objectives (AMOs).
More information about the new
accountability system
can be found
on the Tennessee Department of Education's
WEBSITE.
As a district, Williamson County Schools
met every single
achievement AMO,
exceeding primary
targets in 8-of-9
measures. The district
also met 6-of-14 gap
closure AMOs, two short
of the required eight
for “exemplary” status.
Tennessee’s new accountability system
also recognizes
“reward”, “focus”, and
“priority” schools based
on achievement and
growth. Williamson
County Schools had three
schools identified as a
reward school for
achievement and six more
schools for achievement
and growth. No school in
the district was
identified as either a
focus or priority
school.
Visit
IN FOCUS
to learn more about the
district’s reward
schools.
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