Monroe earns 4.5 out 5 stars on 2023 Ohio State Report Card

Ohio School Report Cards were recently released by the Ohio Department of Education, and Monroe Local Schools earned a rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars, which equates to “exceeds state standards.” 

ODE’s rating identifies Monroe as the second highest performing school district in Butler County and ranks it higher than 71% of Ohio school districts.

Superintendent Robert Buskirk called Monroe’s rating an outstanding achievement and credited it to a team effort across the district. “Our building leaders, teachers and staff deserve all the credit for helping our students grow academically and exceeding our academic goals for the school year. This data reinforces how well we all work together to support learning for all of our students.”

The report card evaluates and rates Ohio school districts in five categories: Achievement, Progress, Gap Closing, Graduation and Early Literacy. Monroe earned between three and five stars in the various categories with three stars indicating the district “meets state standards;” four stars noting the district “exceeds state standards;” and five stars meaning the district exceeded expectations “by a larger magnitude.”

Monroe Local Schools was rated four stars in the Achievement category, which evaluates “whether student performance on state tests met established thresholds and how well students performed on tests overall.”

The second metric that the district was graded on was Progress, which “measures the academic performance of students compared to expected growth on Ohio's State Tests.” Monroe earned four stars in this category, and the State of Ohio reports that there is “significant evidence that the district exceeded student growth expectations.”

The Gap Closing component shows how well schools are meeting the performance expectations for students in English language arts, math and graduation. It also measures how schools are doing in supporting English learners to increase language proficiency, reducing chronic absenteeism for all students, and identifying gifted students and providing gifted services. Monroe achieved the highest component rating in Butler County, with five out of five stars in this category.

Monroe was rated five stars for the Graduation component that measures the four-year and five-year adjusted cohort graduation rate. Monroe High School’s weighted graduation rate was 96.9%, compared to Ohio’s statewide rate of 87.9%.

“We continually evaluate our practices in our PreK-12 classrooms to ensure that we are not only meeting but exceeding the needs of all our students,” said Curriculum Director Jody Long. “While the state report card is just one of several measures that the district uses to evaluate itself, it provides us with some very valuable insights that help us track our progress and challenge ourselves to find more opportunities for improvement.”