After months of delay, the 2018-2019 school letter grades were finally released by the Indiana Department of Education this week, with the results almost identical to the previous year’s.
The Indiana General Assembly passed a law requiring that a school’s 2018-2019 accountability grade could not be lower than the one from 2017-2018, due to concerns about a drop in test scores following the switch from the ISTEP to the ILEARN. The Department of Education says it compared the grades from the two years and assigned the better one.
Winamac High School was the only school in Pulaski or Starke county to see its letter grade improve, going from a B to an A. Meanwhile, Knox High School and Oregon-Davis Elementary School kept their A grades. The schools with the lowest grades in the local area are Knox Middle School and West Central Elementary School, which both stayed at a D.
All of the corporation-level grades were also unchanged in Starke and Pulaski counties. Knox, Eastern Pulaski, and Culver Community Schools got a B, while North Judson-San Pierre, Oregon-Davis, and West Central all got C’s.
The letter grades were finalized by the State Board of Education Wednesday. A separate set of federal accountability ratings was released back in January. Complete results can be found on the Indiana Department of Education’s website.
