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 4^th 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 4^th and 8^th 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 4^th and 8^th 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 4^th and 8^th 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 40^th 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 65^th 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  341^st in 8^th 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.