Last night, Green County School District held a town hall event to go over their State Accountability and Assessment results. This year, Green County School District had some of the best scores within the state. The Primary and Intermediate schools had the worst scores within the report, only achieving a score 64.0. The state average for elementary level was 67.0. They were #1 in regional and #9 in state for School Safety and Climate procedures. They also had an above average year for KSA Science, Social Studies, and Wrtiting Indicator tests. The Middle School had a great year. They ended up above the state average score of 56 points, making in total 72.8 points. They ended up being #16 out of 171 school districts within the state. They were #1 regional and #9 statewide in KSA reading and math tests. They were also above average in the KSA Science, Social Studies, and Wrtiting Indicator tests. The High School had the best scores out of the entire district, ending up with a score of 90.9. They were #4 out of 171 school districts in the state. They ended up #1 in KSA reading and math tests, seeing a significant increase. They were also #1 in Statewide graduation. The district overall was #1 within the region, #15 within the state’s 171 school districts, and #1 in Green River Regional Educational Cooperative .(GRREC) comprised of 47 districts throughout central and southern Kentucky. I asked Superintendent Will Hodges about how he thought the town hall went, his opinions on the scores, and whether we could see an increase in the science, social studies, and writing KSA tests.
Mr. Hodges: “We're excited tonight to host a town hall. It's just amazing to see, the number of people that are out here. It's our neighbors, our community partners, business partners, just a lot of good friends that are here tonight. And, what's just happened here is with assessment and accountability is our school district's number one in the region.
We're number one in the co-op, and that's out of 47 districts, but out of 171 state, state districts we're number 15. So we're number 15 in the state. And this. This doesn't happen without these people, so it's just, it's good to come tonight to celebrate you all, the students.”
Broden Woodruff: “Now another question, could we expect, uh, growth in the science social studies field?”
Mr. Hodges: “Absolutely. I think that's a, we have real potential to grow there next year, and then we expect that to happen, and we're looking forward to that next year. That's a growth area.”