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Reality Check is a new tool created by Ohio Excels to gauge Ohio’s progress in unleashing learning potential, creating economic mobility, and preparing and empowering tomorrow’s talent. It highlights essential information across the state’s education and workforce system, from early learning to K-12 and postsecondary education.
- Key Themes
- Student Enrollment
- Student Attendance
- Spring Assessments
- Using This Information
Several key themes emerge from Ohio’s state-level data about the 2020-2021 school year: 1. Student Enrollment: As expected based on the earlier report, total preK-12 enrollment showed a decrease between the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years. This decrease was approximately 3% (about 53,000 students). Almost half of this decrease was in preschool...
Student enrollment changed in exceptional ways during the 2020-2021 school year. Parents and families faced tough decisions about the best options for their students’ education and well-being. Enrollment data from fall 2020, published in Data Insights: How the Pandemic is Affecting the 2020-2021 School Year, showed that: 1. Total enrollment in preK...
During the 2020-2021 school year, 24% of Ohio’s students (almost 380,000 students) were chronically absent. As expected given the circumstances created by the pandemic, this is a significant incre...
National Trends
Nationally, understanding the pandemic’s impact on student learning is a top priority among educators and policymakers. Based on available evidence, it is increasingly clear that, in general and not surprisingly, students’ academic progress was slower during the 2020-2021 school year compared to prior years,5more so in math than in reading. Mirroring historical patterns, the pandemic’s impact on learning was greater for historically underserved students, including Black, Hispanic and economic...
Ohio’s Assessments
In the fall of 2020, Ohio’s kindergartners took the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA) and Ohio’s third graders took the third-grade English language arts test. These assessments represented the first statewide assessment results since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and the first insights into the pandemic’s impact on Ohio students’ learning. Results from both assessments revealed lower student participation and performance compared to prior years, especially among Ohio’s historic...
Spring 2021 Assessments
The Fall 2020 assessment results provided an important early glimpse of the pandemic’s impact on two grade levels. Ohio’s Spring 2021 assessments provide a broader source of information across grade levels and subjects. In general, the impacts noted based on the Fall 2020 assessments were largely repeated in the Spring 2021 assessments. Researchers from the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University conducted an analysis of participation and performance on the 2021 thir...
Engaging in partnerships;Whole-child supports; andHigh-quality instructional practices and systems.Jul 16, 2023 · Beginning in FY24, the Ohio Work Ready grant program will begin providing up to $3,000 to full-time or part-time students enrolled in an eligible program per rules adopted by the chancellor. We expect select students on OHIO’s regional campuses to be eligible for this program.
Oct 3, 2023 · State of Ohio Schools 2023. October 03, 2023. A legacy of neglect, and how to overcome it. Ohio's students deserve a world-class education, including safe and well-resourced schools that are staffed with teachers who are well trained and fairly paid.
Apr 18, 2023 · This report offers a close look at Ohio's achievement data from the 2018-19 to 2021-22 school years, and concludes with four recommendations that can help accelerate student learning across the Buckeye State.
The Ohio College Opportunity Grant (OCOG) provides financial assistance to Ohio residents who demonstrate the highest levels of financial need. The new budget provides enough funding to increase OCOG by at least $500 per student over the next two years.
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Oct 27, 2023 · These recommendations will help schools and districts implement effective prevention and early intervention strategies to improve attendance and decrease chronic absenteeism. Chronic absence is defined in Ohio as a student missing 10% or more of school hours.
