Texas County school districts will receive a grade under an executive order signed last week by Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe.
The Missouri Department of Education has until June to create a plan to implement a new system for grading schools in the state.
“Missouri’s current accountability system places too much weight on administrative process rather than student success, and it does not give a straightforward picture of how schools are actually performing,” Kehoe said during his speech. “The real test of Missouri’s education system should be whether students are learning.”
According to the secretary of state’s office, public schools and public charter schools will be graded on a lettered A through F scale based on a 0 to 100 point scale:
A – producing excellent student outcomes
B – producing more than satisfactory student outcomes
C – producing satisfactory student outcomes
D – producing less than satisfactory student outcomes
F – failing to produce adequate student outcomes
Scores will be based on the annual Missouri Assessment Program, or MAP, results. High schools will also be graded on graduation rate.