HANCOCK COUNTY — Reports listing enrollment, performance, disciplinary actions and other data about the county’s four public school districts for the 2019-20 school year are now available.
Annual school performance reports make up an extensive accountability tool required by the Indiana General Assembly to be shared with the public.
School districts are required to publish the reports in newspapers sometime through March 31. Southern Hancock’s report appeared in the March 13-15 weekend edition of the Daily Reporter on Pages C6 and C7. Mt. Vernon’s report appeared Tuesday, March 16 on Page B6. Eastern Hancock’s report is in today’s edition on Page B7. Greenfield-Central has not yet submitted its report for publication.
The reports can also be viewed online via the Daily Reporter’s e-edition. It is accessible through the newspaper’s app for portable devices; or through the e-edition link at www.greenfieldreporter.com
School corporations are required to post the reports on their websites as well. The reports also are accessible online by searching for schools and school corporations at inview.doe.in.gov.
The reports list indicators like graduation rates, teacher numbers, attendance, suspensions, expulsions and more. The latest reports also include figures dating to the 2016-17 school year.
Scores from standardized tests like the ISTEP+, ILEARN and IREAD are not available for the 2019-20 school year, however, as the COVID-19 pandemic forced their cancellations last spring.
A-F accountability grades for the 2019-20 school year remain the same as the year before due to schools remaining under a “hold harmless” agreement. Part of what determines those grades is the ILEARN exam, which most students failed when it was first administered in spring 2019. The state passed a law to allow schools to avoid dropping a letter grade for two years.
School districts had the opportunity to apply for a waiver from completing the annual report from the Indiana State Board of Education, but none of Hancock County’s districts received one.
