Just yesterday, Gov. Paul LePage released his Maine School Performance Grading System, making Maine the 14th state in the country to assign letter grades to school districts under a program designed to identify and assist struggling schools while providing transparency to parents.
Local schools, along with many others in southern Maine, performed well under the new ranking system. Kennebunk High School received an A grade and was ranked as the eighth best high school in the state. In RSU 21, the Middle School of the Kennebunks and Mildred L. Day received As as well. Consolidated was 4/10 of a point from an A, receiving a B, along with Sea Road School. In Wells, Wells High School and Wells Junior High received Bs, and Wells Elementary School received a C.
But while we applaud our local schools for scoring well under LePage's new rubric, we can't help but feel that judging a school — or a district, or a student — based solely on test scores in two subject areas (reading and math) isn't a true measure of how well a school serves its students or how they're performing.
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