JONESBORO — The Georgia Department of Education released on Thursday, Dec. 14, information regarding the 2023 performance of Clayton County Public Schools students and schools on the College and Career Ready Performance Index.
The CCRPI is a comprehensive school improvement, accountability, and communication platform for all educational stakeholders that reports and promotes college and career readiness for all Georgia public school students.
The reports include scores for five CCRPI components, each with a scale of 0-100 points. These component areas are Content Mastery, Progress, Closing Gaps, Readiness, and Graduation Rate (high schools only).
— Content Mastery is a measurement of how well students are achieving at the level necessary to be prepared for the next grade, college, or career.
— Readiness is a score that measures whether students are participating in activities preparing them for and showing readiness for the next level, college, or career.
— Progress is a measurement of how much growth students made in English language arts and mathematics and how well English learners are progressing towards English language proficiency
— Closing the Gaps is a measurement of how well all students and subgroups of students are making improvements in achievement rates.
— Graduation Rate is a measurement of whether students are graduating from high school with a regular diploma in four or five years, and it is only reported at the high school level. See Table 1 below for a breakdown of the score comparison between the district and Georgia.
Clayton County Public Schools’ elementary schools outperformed the overall Progress scores of the State of Georgia by 3.4 points, and our middle schools outperformed the state average in Progress by 4 points.
CCPS Elementary Schools, on average, also outperformed the State…
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