AUGUSTA — Three-quarters of the state's schools received a grade of C or lower under a new ranking system unveiled by the Maine Department of Education on Wednesday.
Only 10 high schools, most of them in southern Maine, received an A grade, including Kennebunk High School.
While there has been widespread resistance to the idea, which some have called a punitive oversimplification of a school's quality, the LePage administration has billed the grades as a simple and accessible way to reward high-performing schools and help educators and communities rally around the rest. Maine is the 14th state in the nation, along with New York City, to implement a school grading system.
In RSU 21, Kennebunk High School, the Middle School of the Kennebunks, and Mildred L. Day School received an A grade, while Sea Road School and Kennebunkport Consolidated School received a B grade. Superintendent Andrew Dolloff said there is still a question regarding the data for Consolidated School, which was just 4/10 of a point away from receiving an A.
Kennebunk Elementary School was not graded because the statewide testing begins in Grade 3, and in order for a school to be graded, there must be two years of testing data available. Since KES houses only one tested grade, the school will not receive a state-assigned letter grade.
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