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Map: Did Your School Get A Better Grade In 2012 Because Of Tony Bennett?
When then-Indiana schools chief Tony Bennett changed the way state education officials calculated A-F school ratings, it wasn’t only a favorite charter school, Christel House Academy, that benefited. A StateImpact analysis shows 165 Indiana schools received higher grades in 2012 as a result of a change that helped boost Christel House’s grade from its initially-projected C to the A rating it actually received.
To understand how the school’s grades improved, check out this post. To understand how we made these calculations, click here. To see which schools’ grades improved, take a look at the map and sortable table below:
IDOE Data / StateImpact Analysis
Each dot on the map represents one of the 165 schools whose grades improved because of a change former state superintendent Tony Bennett’s staff made late in 2012.
Use the table below to find individual schools whose grades went up because of changes to the “subscore ceiling” by either typing their name or corporation into the search box or clicking on the arrows in the headers to sort the table.
UPDATE, 5:30 p.m. Eastern: For those of you who want more information than is in the sortable table, take a look at this spreadsheet of the 165 schools included on the map above and the table below. That file includes the schools’ subscores in math and ELA, whether they’re traditional public, charter, or private; and data on what would have happened if Bennett’s staff left the “subscore ceiling” in place.
Corporation | School | Actual 2012 Grade | Grade With 'Ceiling' Still In Place | The High Subscore That Improved The School's Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Adams Schools | South Adams Middle School | A | B | Math |
| M S D Southwest Allen County Schls | Whispering Meadow Elem Sch | A | B | English |
| Northwest Allen County Schools | Oak View Elementary Sch | A | B | English |
| Fort Wayne Community Schools | Weisser Park Elem Sch | A | B | English |
| Fort Wayne Community Schools | Indian Village Elementary Sch | B | C | English |
| Fort Wayne Community Schools | Francis M Price Elem Sch | B | C | English |
| Fort Wayne Community Schools | Robert C Harris Elem Sch | A | B | English |
| Fort Wayne Community Schools | Arlington Elementary School | A | B | English |
| Bartholomew Con School Corp | W D Richards Elementary Sch | A | B | English |
| Bartholomew Con School Corp | Lillian Schmitt Elem School | A | B | English |
| Bartholomew Con School Corp | Taylorsville Elem School | A | B | English |
| Blackford County Schools | Montpelier School | A | B | English |
| Blackford County Schools | Blackford Junior High School | B | C | Math |
| Western Boone Co Com Sch Dist | Thorntown Elementary School | A | B | English |
| Lebanon Community School Corp | Harney Elementary School | B | C | Math |
| Delphi Community School Corp | Delphi Community Elementary School | A | B | Math |
| Logansport Community Sch Corp | Fairview Elementary School | A | B | English |
| Logansport Community Sch Corp | Landis Elementary School | B | C | English |
| Washington Com Schools | Veale Elementary School | A | B | English |
| South Dearborn Com School Corp | Manchester Elementary School | A | B | Math |
| Sunman-Dearborn Com Sch Corp | Sunman-Dearborn Middle School | A | B | Math |
| Sunman-Dearborn Com Sch Corp | Sunman Dearborn Intermediate Sch | A | B | Math |
| Garrett-Keyser-Butler Com | Garrett Middle Sch | A | B | English |
| Liberty-Perry Com School Corp | Selma Middle School | B | C | Math |
| Daleville Community Schools | Daleville Elementary School | A | B | Math |
Source: StateImpact Analysis of IDOE Data
*Christel House Academy is listed in the map and spreadsheet as having improved from a C to an A. To be clear, two changes to the way state officials calculated the school’s grade in 2012 are responsible for that school’s increase. One change involved eliminating high school data from its calculation, lifting the school’s grade from a C to a B. Lifting the subscore ceiling improved Christel House’s grade from a B to an A.
