Hamilton County may have increased its number of “reward” schools during the 2022-2023 school year, but data released last week by the Tennessee Department of Education showed the district remained in the “satisfactory” designation compared to districts across the state based on overall performance indicators.
The district has maintained the “satisfactory” designation, the third in five levels of accountability, for three of the last four years in which the specific five-level system has been used.
In 2018-2019, the district moved up to the “advancing” level before dropping back in 2021-2022 and 2022-2023.
The levels are based on the performance of districts across six critical performance indicators, including grade band success rates, rates at which students are chronically out of school, performance on the English Language Proficiency Assessment (ELPA), and graduation rates.
Specific performance indicators for individual schools, in accordance with the state’s accountability system, have not been released yet.