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Today's 2014-15 state report card results, the first of two stages, show graduation rates, how well schools help struggling young readers catch up to their peers and how well-prepared a school's graduates are for college.
Cleveland will be among those school districts evaluated in the first installment of information just released by the state as part of their report card data. (Lisa DeJong / The Plain Dealer)
Here's what these measures mean:
K-3 Literacy Improvement: This is the second year the state has graded districts on this measure of how well schools help kids that are behind their grade level in reading.
This grade is also not a reflection of how many kids passed Ohio's Third Grade Reading Guarantee requirements. It is a measure of how well districts intervene early to help kids in danger of not making that cut.
Don't expect an A grade if all the youngest students read well. If there are very few students in first or second grade lagging behind expectations in reading scores, your school won't get any grade here at all and be listed as NR - not reported.
Click here for a state fact sheet on last year's K-3 literacy grades.
Graduation rates: These are the percentages of kids that graduate from high school within four years, and separately, within five years. The state also grades districts on their graduation rates.
Prepared for Success: This will be a new grade on state report cards starting with the next state report cards issued in the fall, but not on these. For now, the state is reporting how many kids earn industry credentials before graduating or who score well enough on college-entrance and credit exams like the SAT, ACT and AP.
The Feb. 25 results will include the two grades most experts say give the best indication of how schools and students - the "value-added" measure of how much academic progress students make over a year and the "Performance Index" composite of test scores across multiple grades and subjects.
There are no overall grades for schools and districts until 2018.