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The Tennessee Conservative Staff
The Tennessee Department of Education recently released a report for public school districts statewide.
The state’s accountability model assesses grade band success rates, chronic absenteeism, performance on the English Language Proficiency Assessment, and graduation rates.
Districts are required to demonstrate improved student achievement and growth across all student demographics.
Following evaluation, districts are categorized based on a weighted average into groups such as exemplary, advancing, satisfactory, marginal, or in need of improvement.
Notably, this year, no districts fell under the “marginal” category. However, all districts classified as “in need of improvement” are located in middle and west Tennessee.
Twelve school districts were recognized as “exemplary”:
- Bells City Schools
- Bledsoe County Schools
- Bradford Special School District
- Dyer County Schools
- Dyersburg City Schools
- Franklin Special School District
- Gibson County Special School District
- Johnson City Schools
- Rogersville City Schools
- Sweetwater City Schools
- Tennessee School for the Deaf
- Trousdale County Schools
Conversely, only seven districts were identified as “in need of improvement”:
- Achievement School District
- Cannon County Schools
- Hickman County Schools
- Houston County Schools
- Pickett County Schools
- Robertson County Schools
- South Carroll County Special School District
For the complete list of district rankings, please refer to the source.