Report Defines Educational Value of Schools

During the week of September 9, approximately 49 school districts throughout Ohio will once again release their “Quality Profile”, a more comprehensive assessment of their districts’ performance designed to supplement the state’s district report card. The report card along with the Quality Profile provides the most comprehensive set of data available to communities related to their school.

Because the state report card continues to focus primarily on how well students perform on state mandated assessments, those districts felt it was important to inform their parents and communities a greater understanding of how their district is addressing and meeting community expectations.

The report entitled “Quality Profile,” includes additional accountability measures that define a high-quality education that are not captured by the state report card. Participating districts initially survey their residents to determine those factors they value in their child’s education that are not being measured by the state, then incorporate those factors in a more comprehensive profile that measures those education components that the community considers most important.

This Quality Profile helps to evaluate the effectiveness of a school district beyond standardized testing and other statistical measures provided in the state report card. The Profile is based on six categories: academics, arts, student leadership and activities, fiscal stewardship, parent and community involvement, and student services. We recognize that both the state report card and the quality profile are necessary vehicles to help provide communities with a comprehensive review of district progress yearly and year over year.

Now in its thirteenth year of development and being released statewide for the twelfth time, the Quality Profile is sponsored by the Alliance for High Quality Education, a statewide education consortium that works to improve educational opportunities for students and to represent member districts on matters of educational policy and funding.

A list of districts that released a Profile this year: