OGT News: School Districts with Money Doesn’t Mean Academic Proficiency

The Tribune Chronicle has an article published today showing that just because a school district has money does not mean the school has academic proficiency. For the third year in a row McDonald has boasted the highest percentage of students who passed the Ohio Graduation Test. McDonald Local School District ranks 19th in per-pupil spending out of 20 Trumbull County districts

Howland ranked first or close to first in many Ohio Achievement Test categories this year. Nine Trumbull school districts saw a decrease this year in the percentage of students passing the Ohio graduation test. Bloomfield-Mespo has tumbled 16.7%; Bristol has dropped more than 14 percent. McDonald Local School district ranked first in Trumbull County for three years in a row and still managed to improve with a 1.8% increase in the number of students passing all five of the OGT sections. The lesson here is that money does not equate to academic proficiency.

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