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.
Only three Marshall County schools saw their grades improve. Triton Junior/Senior High School and Washington Discovery Academy in Plymouth both went from a B to an A, while Argos Elementary went from a C to a B. LaVille Junior/Senior High School currently has an appeal pending.
Bremen High School, John Glenn High School, Walkerton Elementary School, and North Liberty School all kept their A grades, while Plymouth’s Jefferson and Webster elementary schools had the lowest grades locally at a D. All of Marshall County’s school districts’ corporation-level grades remained at a B, except for John Glenn, which again got an A, and Union-North, which has an appeal pending.
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.
