Detailed Analysis of School Performance in (2007-08)

Graph I: Percent of Cleveland Students in Public Schools by State Designation (2006-07 & 2007-08)

CMSD Students, 06-07 (N=51,708) 19% 24% 51% 5% 1%

CMSD Students, 07-08 (N=48,611) 46% 27% 19% 5% 3%

Charter Students, 06-07 (N=9,269) 32% 37% 17% 10% 3%

Charter Students, 07-08 (N=10,354) 48% 28% 12% 7% 5%

All Students, 06-07 (N=60,977) 21% 26% 46% 6% 1%

All Students, 07-08 (N=58,965) 47% 27% 18% 5% 3%

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Academic Emergency Academic Watch Continuous Improvement Effective Excellent & Excellent w/ Distinction

Source: Ohio Department of Education interactive Local Report Card Note: This chart does not include students in schools that are unrated and students attending charter e-schools.

Percent of Cleveland Students in Public Schools (District and Charter) by State Designation. Graph I shows the percent of Cleveland students in district and charter schools by state designation for both the 2006-07 and 2007-08 school years. In 2007-08, 47 percent of students (district and charter) were attending schools the state rated academic emergency while 27 percent were attending schools graded academic watch (for a total of 74 percent of students in “D” or “F” schools). In contrast, in 2006-07, 21 percent of students (district and charter) were attending schools the state rated academic emergency while 26 percent were attending schools graded academic watch (for a total of 47 percent of students in “D” or “F” schools).

For Cleveland district schools alone in 2007-08, 46 percent of students attended a school rated academic emergency, while 48 percent of charter students where in schools rated academic emergency in 2007-08. In 2006-07, students in both sectors fared better with only 19 percent of district students attending a school rated academic emergency and 32 percent of charter students in “F” rated schools.

Detailed Analysis of Public School Performance in Cleveland, 2007-08 1 Thomas B. Fordham Institute, August 26, 2008 Graph II: Percent of Cleveland Students in Public Schools by State Designation versus the Big 8 Average*

CMSD Students 46% 27% 19% 5% 3% (N=48,611)

Big 8 District Students 22% 24% 32% 15% 7% (N=218,516)

Cleveland Charter 48% 28% 12% 7% 5% Students (N=10,354)

Big 8 Charter Students 45% 27% 18% 8% 2% (N=42,148)

All Cleveland Students 47% 27% 18% 5% 3% (N=58,965)

All Big 8 Students 26% 25% 29% 14% 6% (N=260,664)

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Academic Emergency Academic Watch Continuous Improvement Effective Excellent & Excellent w / Distinction

Percent of Cleveland Students in Public Schools by State Designation versus the Big 8 Average. Graph II shows how Cleveland district and charter school students performed against the Big 8 averages for district and charter performance. This helps to put the performance of students in Cleveland into a larger context (e.g., how do they perform against other urban students in Ohio?) Cleveland students overall perform less well than their Big 8 peers (74 percent of Cleveland students are in a school rated academic emergency or academic watch while the Big 8 average is 51 percent). Overall, students in Cleveland schools, district and charter, are more likely to be in an academically troubled school than their peers in other Ohio urban districts.

* The Big 8 districts are defined as Ohio’s largest urban districts: Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, and Youngstown.

Detailed Analysis of Public School Performance in Cleveland, 2007-08 2 Thomas B. Fordham Institute, August 26, 2008 Graph III: Percent of Cleveland Students in Public Schools by Value-added Composite Score versus the Big 8 Average (2007-08)

CMSD Students 59% 26% 15% (N=33,901) Big 8 District Students 52% 23% 25% (N=157,190)

Cleveland Charter 52% 42% 6% Students (N=7,779)

Big 8 Charter Students 49% 26% 25% (N=31,568)

All Cleveland Students 58% 29% 13% (N=41,680)

All Big 8 Students 51% 24% 25% (N=188,758)

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Percent of Cleveland Students in Public Schools by Value-added Composite Score versus the Big 8 Average. For the first time in 2007-08, Ohio’s local report cards include each school’s “value-added”—how much progress students made in reading and math over the course of one year compared to how much the state expected them to gain (for a detailed explanation go to: http://www.edexcellence.net/detail/news.cfm?news_id=735&id=130). Using this information Ohio determined if each school made “Above Expected Growth,” “Expected Growth,” or “Below Expected Growth.”

In Cleveland, 58 percent of all students in public schools (district and charter) made less than a year’s worth of expected growth in 2007-08. This contrasts with the Big 8 urban district average where 51 percent of all students made less than a year’s worth of expected growth in 2007-08. Charter students in Cleveland made more growth than their district peers with 48 percent of charter students meeting or exceeding growth targets. In contrast, only 41 percent of Cleveland Metropolitan School District students met of exceeded the state’s growth targets. What this means in practice is that a slightly larger percentage of students in Cleveland’s charters learned more in 2007-08 than did their peers in district schools. The same holds for the Big 8 charters, where charter students showed more gains in 2007-08 (51 percent were at or above expected growth) than Big 8 district students (only 48 percent were at or above expected growth).

Detailed Analysis of Public School Performance in Cleveland, 2007-08 3 Thomas B. Fordham Institute, August 26, 2008 Table I: Cleveland Public Schools (District and Charter) Ranked by Performance Index Score The following pages list Cleveland’s public charter and district schools ranked by Performance Index (PI) score† for the 2007-08 school year. Numerous other performance indicators are also included, but the Performance Index score was selected for ranking the schools because it provides an overall indication of how well students perform on all tested subjects in grades 3 through 8 and the Ohio Graduation Test.

We strongly encourage readers to look closely at the number of standards met and the number of standards possible. A school with a large number of possible standards and possible standards met has gotten a large percentage of students to the state proficiency goals.

We also encourage readers to consider schools’ value-added results. Where the Performance Index reflects student achievement at one point in time, value-added tells us how a school is doing at helping its students make progress from year to year. For more on value-added, see Fordham’s value-added primer on our website: http://www.edexcellence.net/detail/news.cfm?news_id=735&id=130.

† The Performance Index score is calculated by multiplying the percentage of students that are untested, below basic/limited, basic, proficient, accelerated, or advanced by weights ranging from 0 for untested to 1.2 for advanced students. The totals are then summed up to obtain the school or district’s PI score. PI scores range from 0 to 120, and the state has set the goal for all schools to achieve a PI score of 100 or better. For a complete description of how the Ohio Department of Education calculates the PI score see their website here: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=29878.

Detailed Analysis of Public School Performance in Cleveland, 2007-08 4 Thomas B. Fordham Institute, August 26, 2008 Table I: Cleveland Public Schools (District and Charter) Ranked by Performance Index Score

# of Value- PI PI # of standards added Score Score Overall standards possible Composite Grade Rank Building Name Type 07-08 06-07 Designation 07-08 AYP 07-08 met 07-08 07-08 07-08 Enrollment Span CMSD 1 Early Childhood Development Choice 104 70 Excellent Met 3 3 -- 146 K-3,P 2 Horizon Science Acad Cleveland Charter 102.1 94.5 Excellent Met 12 12 -- 420 6-12 CMSD 3 Garrett Morgan Schl Of Science School Choice 101.4 91.5 Excellent Not Met 12 15 -- 227 9-12 CMSD 4 John Hay Campus High School Choice 100.5 106.2 Excellent Met 6 6 -- 576 9-12 5 Riverside School District 98.1 95.6 Excellent Not Met 14 19 Above 517 K-8 CMSD 6 Whitney Young School Choice 97.7 95 Effective Met 18 21 Met 415 6-12 7 Intergenerational School, The Charter 97.5 96.4 Effective Met 8 10 Below 116 K-8 CMSD 8 Cleveland School Of The Arts High School Choice 97.1 93.5 Effective Met 15 19 Above 558 7-12 9 Puritas Community School Charter 95.6 90.3 Effective Met 5 6 Below 150 K-8 10 Louisa May Alcott Elementary School District 94.6 102.5 Effective Met 8 10 Met 212 K-5 CMSD 11 Newton D Baker School Choice 93.3 88.3 Effective Met 13 19 Above 631 P,K-8 12 Madison Community School Charter 91.7 86.6 Excellent Met 7 12 Above 112 K-8 *13 Citizens Academy Charter 91.4 89.2 Effective Met 6 10 Met 311 K-8 *13 Cleveland Entrepreneurship Preparatory School Charter 91.4 87.4 Effective Met 4 6 Met 188 6-12 Continuous 15 Sunbeam District 89.2 87.1 Improvement Not Met 7 19 Met 224 P,K-8 Continuous 16 Louis Agassiz School District 88.9 89.6 Improvement Not Met 9 19 Met 322 K-8 CMSD Continuous 17 Choice 87.8 0 Improvement Not Met 2 6 -- 143 9-10 Continuous 18 Carl F Shuler District 87.6 84.4 Improvement Not Met 4 11 -- 351 9-12 Continuous 19 Westpark Community-Cleveland Charter 87.3 90.4 Improvement Not Met 3 6 Below 197 K-4 Continuous 20 James Ford Rhodes High School District 86.9 87.7 Improvement Not Met 4 12 -- 1409 9-12 Continuous 21 Horizon Science Academy-Cleveland Middle School Charter 85.4 94.1 Improvement Met 8 19 Met 219 K-8 CMSD Continuous 22 SuccessTech Academy School Choice 84.5 89.8 Improvement Not Met 3 12 -- 238 9-12 Continuous 23 William C Bryant Elementary School District 83.8 87.7 Improvement Not Met 6 19 Below 495 P,K-8 Continuous 24 Clara E Westropp School District 83.4 84.2 Improvement Not Met 3 19 Above 640 P,K-8 Continuous 25 Benjamin Franklin District 82.9 90.6 Improvement Not Met 5 19 Below 669 P,K-8 Continuous 26 John Marshall High School District 82.1 83.2 Improvement Not Met 4 12 -- 1643 9-12 CMSD *27 Cleveland School of Arts (Dike Campus) Choice 81.3 76.7 Effective Met 3 12 Above 362 K-6,P

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Fordham Institute, August 26, 2008 CMSD Continuous *27 Orchard School Choice 81.3 89.9 Improvement Not Met 3 19 Below 561 P,K-8 Continuous 29 Horizon Science Academy-Denison Middle School Charter 80 80.3 Improvement Met 4 17 Met 283 K-12 Continuous 30 Oliver H Perry Elementary School District 79.9 83.7 Improvement Not Met 2 19 Above 368 P,K-8 CMSD 31 Tremont Montessori School Choice 79.7 86.7 Academic Watch Not Met 6 19 Met 402 P,K-8 CMSD 32 Martin Luther King Jr Career Campus Choice 79.4 83.8 Academic Watch Not Met 3 12 -- 550 9-12 Continuous 33 Alexander Graham Bell District 79.3 80.6 Improvement Met 5 19 Met 384 P,K-8 CMSD 34 Jane Addams Business Careers High School Choice 78.9 86.4 Academic Watch Not Met 4 12 -- 479 9-12 *35 Paul L Dunbar Elementary School District 78.6 84 Academic Watch Not Met 1 19 Below 284 P,K-8 *35 Weems School Charter 78.6 67.6 Academic Watch Not Met 1 6 Met 87 K-8 37 Hope Academy Lincoln Park Charter 77.9 83.1 Academic Watch Not Met 3 12 Below 157 K-8 Continuous 38 Denison District 77.8 79.6 Improvement Met 3 19 Met 713 K-8 39 Empire School District 77.6 79.2 Academic Watch Not Met 3 19 Below 330 K-8 40 Watterson-Lake School District 77.5 88 Academic Watch Not Met 1 19 Below 524 K-8 *41 Collinwood High School District 77.3 81.8 Academic Watch Not Met 2 12 -- 962 9-12 *41 Marion C Seltzer Elementary School District 77.3 83.5 Academic Watch Not Met 2 19 Below 614 K-8 CMSD 43 Max S Hayes High School Choice 77.1 84.6 Academic Watch Not Met 0 12 -- 468 9-12 44 Waverly Elementary School District 76.6 79.1 Academic Watch Not Met 1 19 Below 458 K-8 45 Charles A Mooney School District 76.5 76.9 Academic Watch Not Met 1 19 Met 604 K-8 46 Wilbur Wright School District 75.9 77 Academic Watch Not Met 0 19 Met 588 P,K-8 47 Lincoln-West High School District 75.5 81.5 Academic Watch Not Met 1 12 -- 1369 9-12 48 H Barbara Booker Elementary School District 75.4 77.1 Academic Watch Not Met 2 19 Met 508 K-8 49 Robinson G Jones Elementary School District 75 85.3 Academic Watch Not Met 4 19 Below 370 P,K-8 50 McKinley School District 74.4 79.9 Academic Watch Not Met 1 19 Below 343 K-8 Continuous 51 Clark School District 74.3 71.1 Improvement Not Met 2 19 Above 579 K-8 CMSD 52 Forest Hill Parkway Elementary School Choice 74 82 Academic Watch Not Met 1 19 Below 390 K-8 Continuous 53 Memorial School District 73.5 73.1 Improvement Met 3 19 Above 454 P,K-8 Continuous 54 Hope Academy Cathedral Campus Charter 73.2 70.6 Improvement Met 3 19 Met 420 K-8 55 Artemus Ward @ Halle District 72.9 86.1 Academic Watch Not Met 4 19 Below 404 P,K-8 Continuous 56 Marcus Garvey Academy Charter 72.1 71.3 Improvement Not Met 2 7 Above 93 6-9 57 Hope Academy Cuyahoga Campus Charter 71.6 76.3 Academic Watch Not Met 1 19 Below 503 K-7 58 Mound Elementary School District 71.5 70.7 Academic Watch Not Met 2 19 Met 287 K-8 59 Apex Academy Charter 71.4 73.5 Academic Watch Not Met 2 19 Below 559 K-8 60 Almira District 71.2 76.3 Academic Watch Not Met 0 19 Below 466 K-8 61 Captain Arthur Roth District 71 78.2 Academic Watch Not Met 0 19 Below 315 P,K-8 *62 George Washington Carver District 70.8 73.9 Academic Watch Not Met 2 19 Below 404 P,K-8 *62 Joseph F Landis School District 70.8 75.8 Academic Watch Not Met 2 19 Met 399 K-8 *62 Hope Northcoast Academy Charter 70.8 73.2 Academic Watch Not Met 1 19 Below 245 K-8 *65 Anton Grdina District 70.7 73 Academic Watch Not Met 1 19 Below 522 P,K-8 *65 Michael R. White District 70.7 77.1 Academic Watch Not Met 2 19 Below 378 K-8 *65 Scranton School District 70.7 72.7 Academic Watch Not Met 0 19 Met 452 K-8 Detail ed Analysis of Public School Performance in Cleveland, 20 07-08 6 Thomas B. Fordham Institute, August 26, 2008 *68 Hope Academy Chapelside Campus Charter 70.4 71 Academic Watch Not Met 2 19 Below 453 K-8 *68 Hope Academy Broadway Campus Charter 70.4 76.3 Academic Watch Not Met 0 19 Below 426 K-8 70 Stockyard Community School Charter 70 71.3 Academic Watch Not Met 1 10 Met 167 K-6 *71 Iowa-Maple Elementary School District 69.8 67.5 Academic Watch Not Met 2 19 Above 368 P,K-8 *71 John F Kennedy High School District 69.8 73.1 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 12 -- 940 9-12 73 Hope Academy East Campus Charter 69.6 65.8 Academic Emergency Not Met 1 19 Met 371 K-12 74 Willow School District 69.4 78.8 Academic Emergency Not Met 1 19 Below 240 K-8 75 Bolton District 69.3 73.1 Academic Emergency Not Met 1 19 Below 343 P,K-8 76 Buckeye-Woodland School District 69.1 76.4 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Below 260 K-8 77 District 68.8 71.8 Academic Emergency Not Met 2 12 -- 1340 9-12 78 Hope Academy Northwest Campus Charter 68.4 70.5 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Met 341 K-12 79 Giddings District 68.3 80.3 Academic Emergency Not Met 1 19 Below 302 P,K-8 80 Life Skills Ctr Of Cleveland Charter 68 59.3 Academic Watch Not Met 0 12 -- 283 9-12 CMSD 81 East Technical High School Choice 67.8 66.3 Academic Emergency Not Met 1 12 -- 783 9-12 82 Fullerton School District 67.3 69.7 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Below 395 K-8 83 Emile B Desauze Elementary School District 67.2 70.7 Academic Emergency Not Met 1 19 Below 344 K-8 84 Union Elementary School District 66.7 69.6 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Met 248 K-8 9- 85 Life Skills Ctr Of Lake Erie Charter 66.6 69.9 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 12 -- 439 12,UNG 86 Harvey Rice Elementary School District 66.5 75.3 Academic Emergency Not Met 1 19 Below 267 K-8 87 Mary M Bethune District 66.3 66.6 Academic Emergency Not Met 1 19 Below 352 K-8 88 Charles H Lake District 66.2 60.4 Academic Emergency Not Met 1 19 Met 245 P,K-8 89 Daniel E Morgan School District 66.2 77.4 Academic Emergency Not Met 2 19 Below 448 P,K-8 *90 Case District 66 72.2 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Below 481 P,K-8 *90 Gracemount District 66 68.8 Academic Emergency Not Met 1 19 Below 487 K-8 92 Robert H Jamison School District 65.8 72.7 Academic Emergency Not Met 1 19 Below 563 P,K-8 *93 John Adams High School District 65.6 71.2 Academic Emergency Not Met 1 11 -- 1169 9-12 *93 Joseph M Gallagher School District 65.6 71 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Below 791 P,K-8 95 Henry W Longfellow Elementary School District 64.9 73 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Below 321 P,K-8 96 Buhrer District 64.8 72.4 Academic Emergency Not Met 1 19 Met 438 P,K-8 97 East High School District 64.5 65.2 Academic Emergency Not Met 1 12 -- 715 9-12 *98 East Clark District 64.3 69 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Below 541 P,K-8 *98 Cleveland Lighthouse Community School Charter 64.3 49.9 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 12 Above 295 K-12 100 Brooklawn District 64.2 73.4 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Below 304 K-8 101 Hannah Gibbons-Nottingham Elementary School District 64.1 67 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Below 246 P,K-8 102 Arts and Science Preparatory Academy Charter 63.8 0 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 9 -- 118 K-12 *103 Miles Park School District 63.4 83.9 Academic Emergency Not Met 2 19 Below 538 K-8 *103 Walton School District 63.4 62.5 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Above 583 K-8 105 Charles Dickens School District 62.9 72.3 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Below 364 K-8 106 Luis Munoz Marin School District 62.8 71.3 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Met 872 K-8 107 South High School District 62.7 82 Academic Emergency Not Met 2 12 -- 941 9-12 108 Carl & Louis Stokes Central Academy District 62.4 61.7 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Below 507 P,K-8 109 Miles School District 61.9 65 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Met 394 P,K-8 110 Villaview Lighthouse Community School Charter 61.6 0 Academic Emergency Not Met 1 10 -- 230 K-12 111 Adlai Stevenson School District 61.1 64.7 Academic Emergency Not Met 1 19 Met 290 K-8 *112 John W Raper School District 60.8 72.9 Academic Emergency Not Met 1 19 Below 444 P,K-8 *112 Paul Revere Elementary School District 60.8 64.6 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Below 441 P,K-8 114 Audubon District 60.3 58.9 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Met 491 K-8 115 Andrew J Rickoff District 59.6 62 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Below 570 P,K-8 116 Marion-Sterling Elementary School District 59.4 71.2 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Below 498 P,K-8 Detail ed Analysis of Public School Performance in Cleveland, 20 07-08 7 Thomas B. Fordham Institute, August 26, 2008 *117 John D Rockefeller Elementary School District 59.2 68.6 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Below 242 K-8 *117 Virtual Schoolhouse, Inc. Charter 59.2 41.7 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 28 Below 528 K-12 *119 Charles W Eliot School District 59.1 64.8 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Below 299 P,K-8 *119 Mary B Martin School District 59.1 70.5 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Below 340 K-8 121 Academy of Cleveland Charter 56 62.7 Academic Emergency Not Met 1 12 Below 112 SN,K-6 122 Robert Fulton School District 55.7 69.1 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Below 303 K-8 123 Nathan Hale School District 55.2 58.4 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Met 349 K-8 124 Franklin D. Roosevelt District 55.1 66.1 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Below 297 P,K-8 125 Wade Park District 54.7 57.4 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Below 222 P,K-8 *126 Genesis Academy District 54.3 0 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 6 -- 89 9-10 *126 Hope Academy High School - Cleveland Campus Charter 54.3 71.2 Academic Emergency Not Met 1 11 -- 235 9-12 128 Patrick Henry School @ Howe Elementary District 53.9 61.3 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Below 351 P,K-8 129 Woodland Hills School District 53.3 64.2 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 19 Below 376 K-8 130 Lion of Judah Academy Charter 52.8 65.9 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 8 Below 97 K-8 131 Greater Heights Academy Charter 51.2 48.2 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 29 Met 854 K-11 132 Harvard Avenue Community School Charter 49.5 51.9 Academic Emergency Not Met 1 10 Below 495 K-8 Cleveland Academy for Scholarship Technology and 9- 133 Leadership Charter 41.6 53 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 11 -- 403 12,UNG 134 Greater Achievement Community School Charter 39.2 52.9 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 13 -- 133 K-11 135 Option Complex District 37.3 51.6 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 5 -- 172 6-9 9- 136 Life Skills Of Northeast Ohio Charter 35.9 56.2 Academic Emergency Not Met 0 12 -- 314 12,UNG Source: Ohio Department of Education Notes: 1) Rankings are based on Performance Index score for the 2007-08 school year. 2) Schools without a Performance Index score or building Designation were removed. 3) Cleveland students are assigned to a neighborhood school but may enroll in district choice school that offers a special curriculum or alternative program. For the purposes of this analysis, those district schools of choice are labelled "CMSD Choice." * These schools were tied for the same ranking number.

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