More than half of Henrico schools fell into the bottom two performance categories – “off track” and “needs intensive support” – under the state’s new accountability system released Dec. 9.
The Virginia Department of Education’s new school rating system categorizes schools into four groups: “distinguished,” “on track,” “off track,” and “needs intensive support.” The new rankings are based on schools’ Standards of Learning scores, improvement in SOL scores, chronic absenteeism and graduation rates.
Across the state, about 65% of schools were ranked as “distinguished” or “on track” – but in Henrico, only 44% of schools fell into these categories. Ten Henrico schools were labeled as “distinguished,” 20 as “on track,” 24 as “off track,” and 14 as “needs intensive support.”…