We are relatively familiar with the performance of Cincinnati Public Schools on the school and system level. In 2008-09, 3 out of 4 CPS schools failed to meet their adequate yearly progress targets under No Child Left Behind. And 11 of 59 CPS schools have been in No Child Left Behind “improvement status” for five or more years.
What’s new in this report is data that compares the percentage of students who meet state learning standards in third grade with the percentage that meet state learning standards in fifth grade.
This data shows that students in CPS lose ground in these years. The reading achievement rate for third graders in 2006-07 was 60% - but in 2008-09, when these students reached fifth grade, their achievement rate dropped to 47%.
Math performance trends were even worse. The math achievement rate for third graders in 2006-2007 was 71% - but when these students reached fifth grade in 2008-09, their achievement rate dropped to 37%.
Report authors attribute CPS failures to problems in the CPS teacher evaluation system.
Read the full report at http://www.tntp.org/publications/other_publications.html#cincy
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