Hubbard school district gets extra credit

YOUNGSTOWN — The Hubbard school district will get an “excellent” rating when the annual state report cards come out Tuesday, even though the district is still deficient in meeting some state-required educational standards.

A change in the report card calculation system this year, giving credit for pupil academic growth although a district hasn’t met all or nearly all of the 30 standards of pupil achievement, will enable Hubbard to move from effective to the excellent category, said Lucille Esposito, Hubbard assistant superintendent.

The Ohio Department of Education calls it a “value-added measure,” reflecting how much progress pupils made in taking achievement tests since last year.

It uses the test results in reading and mathematics in grades four through eight. All pupils in grades three through eight are tested in those two subjects, allowing the state to compare the performance of last year’s third-graders with their performance as this year’s fourth-graders, last year’s fourth-graders as this year’s fifth-graders, and so on.

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