When students do a good job, they get stars — and now schools do, too. Nevada’s School Performance Framework, known as the “Rising Stars” system, gives each public school a rating from one to five stars based on academics, engagement and student growth.
“It’s really just based on a framework. It’s developed with the district and the state, looking at how we look at academic achievement. We look at student engagement, and we look at not only proficiency, but also growth,” said Denise Dufrene, Area Superintendent for elementary schools.
At Glenn Duncan Elementary School, the work happening inside classrooms has started to show up in the ratings. Principal Ryan Smith said the school made significant progress over the last year. “We rose two stars on our yearly rating from the state. And we attribute it to a lot of things. We attribute it stellar instruction in the classrooms and decreasing our chronic absenteeism rate,” he said…