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Cobb tops state
2017 CCRPI averages,
Marietta trails slightly
By Staff Reports
The Cobb County School District topped the state average
on the 2018 College and Career Readiness Performance Index
scores, while Marietta trailed slightly.
Both districts outperformed the state in 2017, but officials
say 2018 scores can’t be compared to previous years.
The CCRPI is a measuring stick — a report card of sorts —
used to gauge the performance of Georgia’s schools.
According to the Georgia Department of Education,
Cobb schools averaged 79.6 and Marietta City earned a 75.2
compared to Georgia’s average of 76.6.
Among nearby districts, Cherokee County Schools scored a
79, DeKalb County Schools received a 70, Fulton schools got
an 81, Gwinnett received an 83 and Paulding got a 75.4.
But critics say measuring a school’s progress is difficult when
the state regularly changes the way its scores are calculated.
CCRPI was introduced in 2012 and changes were made to
how scores were tallied in 2015 after Georgia transitioned to
Milestones assessments, according to the state DOE.
“With the redesign, the CCRPI scores can’t be compared to
last year — so they’re essentially useless,” said Connie Jackson,
president of the Cobb County Association of Educators. “I
mean you can look at them and you can compare them to each
other. You can compare one school to another and the district
to the state ...”
But in its first year since the revamped formula was
introduced, it’s tough using the metric to gauge a school’s
progress, Jackson said, which is what CCRPI was designed
to do.
“The frustrating part for us is that the target is constantly
moving,” she said. “You can’t really achieve excellence if you
move the goal every year.”
CCRPI has been used to monitor a school’s performance
year over year using factors ranging from student
achievement, progress, state test scores, reading ability,
attendance and, for high schools, graduation rates.
The DOE says CCRPI has been “streamlined and simplified”
this year, but standardized tests still account for the bulk of a
school’s score.
State and federal law require schools to give standardized
tests, but both Cobb and Marietta are exploring ways to
substitute alternative assessments and do away with the annual
Milestones tests, which could complicate comparing CCRPI
scores further.
Schools were graded in 2018 on five overall components:
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