The Christian County School System is celebrating having no schools with a federal label, following the release of statewide accountability results from the last school year.
The testing data now comes with not only an overall score for each school and on elementary, middle, and high school levels for the district but also a star rating system. It shows six schools received three stars. Those schools are Crofton Elementary, Indian Hills, Millbrooke, Sinking Fork Elementary, South Christian Elementary and Hopkinsville Middle School. The star system is on a one to five star rating, with five being the best. Indian Hills was the district’s top-performing school.
Five schools received two stars—Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary, Pembroke Elementary, Christian County Middle School, Christian County High School and Hopkinsville High School. Only one school received one star, which was Freedom Elementary.
District Assessment Coordinator Tracey Leath says both Freedom and Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary school have been removed from the federal Comprehensive School Improvement label, which put them at the bottom five percent of school in Kentucky.
Along with that, the seven schools that were labelled as Targeted School Improvement last year have also been removed from that designation, which means no schools in CCPS have a federal label for the first time in several years. Leath says to achieve a five star rating, schools needed no achievement gaps and nearly perfect scores in all categories.
Instructional Supervisor Jessica Addison says the results, while they show great improvement in many areas, also shows that there’s very much still work to be done, and many schools are working on plans now.
The district as a whole received two star ratings in all three categories, while the state average was three stars. The Kentucky Department of Education did not designate any new TSI schools based on data.