Three area schools have made the Connecticut State Department of Education’s list of Schools of Distinction based on their performance on Connecticut Mastery Tests for elementary and middle grades and Connecticut Academic Performance Tests for high school.
Three area schools won the top category, as Highest Performing Schools:
In the Bethel School District, it is Anna H. Rockwell School for its CMT scores.
In the Redding School District, it is John Read Middle School for its CMT scores.
In the Ridgefield School District, it is East Ridge Middle School for its CMT scores.
In Regional School District 12, it is the Burnham School in Bridgewater for its CMT scores.
This component of the State’s accountability system recognizes Title I and non-Title I schools that achieve high standards in three different ways:
1) Highest Performing Subgroup;
2) Highest Progress; and
3) Highest Overall Performance.
Schools with the highest overall performance in 2013 were designated based on all of the following criteria:
1. That the school performance index (SPI) for “all students” group in 2013 is greater than or equal to 88 and is among the highest 10% of all Title I or non-Title I schools.
2. Gaps between the majority of historically under-performing subgroups, English language learners, students with disabilities, students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Black/ African-American students, Hispanic/ Latino students) and the “all students” group, is less than 10 SPI points.
3. For high schools, the 2012 four-year cohort graduation rate is at least 94%.