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Seven Henrico schools earned state recognition for high student achievement or continuous improvement as part of the Board of Education’s new exemplar performance school recognition program, which replaces the Virginia Index of Performance program.
Five Henrico County schools earned the Board of Education Highest Achievement Award: Colonial Trail Elementary, Nuckols Farm Elementary, Rivers Edge Elementary, Sandston Elementary and Twin Hickory Elementary.
To earn this award, a school had to be accredited and have a 70 percent pass rate on state assessments in science and math, a 75 percent pass rate on state assessments in English reading and writing, no more than a 5 percent gap in English reading and writing and in mathematics between the lowest-performing group and other students in the school if the school has two student groups, or no more than a 10 percent gap if the school has three or more student groups. In total, 52 Virginia schools earned the Board of Education Highest Achievement Award.
Jackson Davis Elementary and Montrose Elementary earned the Board of Education Continuous Improvement Award. These schools had to hold state accreditation ratings of Accredited or Accredited with Conditions and either have a cumulative 10-point increase over three years in the combined rates for reading and mathematics and in the pass rate for science, with improvement each year on each indicator, a cumulative 10-point increase over three years in the combined rates for reading and mathematics for two or more student groups, with improvement each year for each group on both indicators, a cumulative 15 percent decrease in the chronic absenteeism rate over three years, with a decrease each year, or for schools with a graduating class, a cumulative four-point increase in the Graduation and Completion Index over three years, with an increase each year, and a cumulative 15 percent decrease in the dropout rate, with a decrease each year.
Eighty-three Virginia schools earned the Board of Education Continuous Improvement Award.
The state Board of Education approved the criteria for the new awards in April of 2018, and the recognition program aligns with the board’s revised accreditation standards.
