5 things to know from new school report cards
The Tennessee Department of Education updated its school and district report cards, giving families a look at how their school and district is performing.
The department released its annual report card Tuesday for the 2022-23 school year, which includes the latest data for schools’ achievement, demographics, graduation rate and more. New this year, the report card also includes a calculator to show how much money the state’s new funding formula allocates per student.
Here are a few key takeaways about Hamilton County Schools from the released data.
1. Students completing career and technical education concentrations have doubled since future ready institutes launched.
Roughly 40% of students in the class of 2022 completed at least two career and technical education courses in a single career sequence during high school. That’s more than double the percent in 2018, the year the district launched its future ready institutes. Across Hamilton County, there are roughly 30 future ready institutes, which aim to embed small learning communities focused around a variety of industry themes at traditional high schools. The percent of students completing concentrations has increased every year since the district launched the initiative.
2. Chronic absenteeism rate stayed steady.
During the 2022-23 school year, 21.1% of students were absent for at least 10%
of the school year, compared to 20.9% the year before. Chronic absenteeism rates roughly doubled during the pandemic and have stayed at about that level since.
3. Ready Graduates up from 2021.
In the class of 2022, 43.8% of students demonstrated they were prepared for a postsecondary education or career, an increase from the year before and higher than the state average. Seven district high schools had at least 50% of their students deemed Ready Graduates. The increase in Ready Graduates comes at the same time as the district has incrementally increased its four-year graduation rate over the past few years.
4. District employed 3,390 teachers.
That creates a 13:1 student to teacher ratio. The school system also employed 191 administrators and 377 other staff during the 2022-23 school year.
5. The number of economically disadvantaged students rose by 9%.
During the 2022-23 school year, 37% of Hamilton County students were designated as economically disadvantaged, compared to 28% the year before. The state defines economically disadvantaged as students who are directly certified because their families receive certain forms of government assistance, as well as homeless, foster, runaway and migrant students.
For more information about your child’s school, visit reportcard.tnedu. gov.