Local administrators react to new report ranking academic achievement at Iowa schools

Administrators at Hampton-Dumont and CAL expressed mixed emotions last week following the release of a report ranking academic achievement at each school in Iowa.
     The Iowa School Report Card was made available to the public by the state department of education. The annual report pools student data from standardized tests and other resources, then assesses each school district’s achievement levels by comparing them to state averages. Schools were then placed into one of six categories based on their scores.
     H-D Superintendent Todd Lettow said the report merely put a label on information district administrators were already aware of. He believed the analysis unfairly categorized certain underachieving schools by failing to tell the whole story.

    Read the full article in the December 23 edition of the Hampton Chronicle.