2003-2004 Biennium
IOWA STATE
SCHOOL RANKINGS--4TH & 8TH
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The
following rankings for ALL Iowa schools were prepared from DOE data posted on the Iowa DOE website—which only allows comparison
of FIVE schools. Since
the schools are listed in rank order below, you can either scroll down
the list to find your school, or use the edit, find function--and then
enter the name of your school. The rankings are
based on 368 reporting school districts. Schools
reporting scores for 4th grade only have a ranking advantage over
other schools, but that is the way it is for a state that has no
school quality control system in place.
Similarly, there is no way to determine for sure how many
student scores some schools fail to report—despite NCLB
requirements.
School cheating is rampant, as proven by teachers fired for cheating in Dallas and Chicago--and by 5,500,000 references of school cheating listed by the Google Search Engine. Iowalive has a ranking of Iowa schools that has been adjusted for school integrity--that should be posted or announced soon. It
can reasonably be stated that 35% or more of Iowa’s 4th
and 8th grade students are
one grade level or more below
their enrolled grade level—and this gets worse for high school,
which has the Governor's attention, finally. For
example, Cedar Rapids and Des Moines have an average of 31% and 40% of
their 4th and 8th students one or more grades
below enrolled grade level--which is worse than last year. Similarly,
Mason City, Sioux City, Council Bluffs, Davenport and Waterloo
respectively have 26%, 37%, 37%, 40% and 46% of their 4th
and 8th students one or more grades below enrolled grade
level--which is about the same as last year. You can calculate
these percentages for other schools from the table below--by
subtracting the District Overall Average % Prof. value from 100.
There
is NO Iowa school district that has all students LESS than one grade
level below enrolled grade level.
Because of the state’s pathetically low 40th
National Percentile Rank standard, adopted by the DOE, there is no
way of knowing if any school has ANY students
scoring at Iowa grade level or above!!!
This is unacceptable and proves that cheating must be stopped
and the Proficiency standard must be raised to at least the 65th
National Percentile Rank level to verify students are proficient
at or above grade level when tested.
Note that the rank for each subject for each grade is also listed. For example, Ottumwa is once again ranked 341st in 8th grade math. Baxter
continues to improve and has raised its overall state rank from 146th
to 33rd to 6th, while Cedar Rapids fell from 184th to 283rd to 311th, and Des Moines
fell from 325th to 360th to 362nd. In general, small schools
improved as larger schools fell in state rank. All can improve
their rank because the rankings are not competitive. All schools
can have 100% of the students proficient and be ranked number 1--but
not have ANY students proficient at Iowa grade level, unfortunately.
School names are color coded per the following legend so you can see at a glance the percentage range of students scoring one or more grades below enrolled grade level. Schools with blank spaces have whole grade sharing and do not report scores. Schools scoring above 99% Proficient are shown as 99.1. |
LEGEND:
GREEN: 15%
OR LESS SCORE ONE GRADE LEVEL OR MORE BELOW ENROLLED GRADE LEVEL
ORANGE: 15.1%
TO 25% SCORE ONE GRADE LEVEL OR MORE BELOW ENROLLED GRADE LEVEL
BLUE: 35%
OR MORE SCORE ONE GRADE LEVEL OR MORE BELOW ENROLLED GRADE LEVEL
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Overall District |
Overall District |
4th Grade Reading |
4th Grade Math |
8th Grade Reading |
8th Grade Math |
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Name |
Avg. % Prof. Rank |
Average % Prof. |
% Prof. |
Rank |
% Prof. |
Rank |
% Prof. |
Rank |
% Prof. |
Rank |
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Aurelia
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1 |
93 |
99.1 |
1 |
93 |
6 |
92 |
1 |
87 |
18 |
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Corwith-Wesley
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2 |
91 |
93 |
8 |
89 |
45 |
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Clearfield
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3 |
90 |
87 |
68 |
93 |
12 |
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Delwood
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4 |
90 |
92 |
12 |
88 |
54 |
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Harris-Lake
Park |
5 |
90 |
98 |
2 |
98 |
3 |
79 |
54 |
84 |
45 |
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Baxter
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6 |
90 |
92 |
9 |
92 |
17 |
90 |
4 |
85 |
30 |
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Cal
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7 |
90 |
88 |
51 |
91 |
31 |
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Johnston
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8 |
89 |
91 |
14 |
91 |
29 |
86 |
6 |
89 |
12 |
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Bennett
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9 |
89 |
96 |
3 |
93 |
7 |
81 |
29 |
86 |
28 |
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Ames
|
10 |
89 |
91 |
13 |
91 |
28 |
84 |
13 |
90 |
8 |
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Ruthven-Ayrshire
|
11 |
88 |
95 |
4 |
99.1 |
1 |
80 |
45 |
78 |
135 |
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Treynor
|
12 |
88 |
88 |
36 |
86 |
89 |
91 |
3 |
87 |
19 |
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Audubon
|
13 |
88 |
87 |
52 |
92 |
24 |
77 |
78 |
94 |
1 |
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Whiting
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14 |
87 |
90 |
23 |
93 |
9 |
74 |
130 |
91 |
7 |
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River
Valley |
15 |
87 |
85 |
81 |
96 |
4 |
79 |
59 |
88 |
17 |
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Pella
|
16 |
87 |
91 |
15 |
90 |
37 |
82 |
24 |
85 |
31 |
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Gilbert
|
17 |
87 |
93 |
6 |
93 |
8 |
82 |
23 |
79 |
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