The Pulaski Community School District and five of its seven schools received a four-star rating in the state Department of Public Instructions’ 2015-2016 School and District Report Cards.
The rating exceeds expectations from the DPI, which creates a report card for every publically funded school and district in the state. The DPI rates from one to five stars. One star means failing to meet expectations, while five stars means the school is significantly exceeding expectations.
Receiving four-star ratings were the Pulaski Community School District, Glenbrook Elementary, Hillcrest Elementary, Lannoye Elementary, Sunnyside Elementary, and Pulaski Community Middle School. Pulaski High School and Fairview Elementary were ranked a three-star, which meets expectations.
There were 99 Wisconsin public schools and five districts received failing grades in the report cards. One of them includes the Menominee Indian School District, which failed to meet expectations. DPI spokesman Tom McCarthy notes it’s the first year for the new standards being used.
“Our hope is that districts who are in these one star or the two star categories use the information that these report cards are giving them to figure out ways in which they can help their students achieve and to grow, and that next year when we issue report cards we will see results of that work,” McCarthy informed.
Because of these low ratings, sanctions are possible for the district if they don’t move up the scale next year.
Overall, 82 percent of schools and 91 percent of districts have three or more stars on the five-star system. Most of the failing schools are in Milwaukee and other high poverty areas and only about one third of schools in Wisconsin’s largest city met or exceeded expectations.
Schools were not graded last year due to changes in achievement tests and the way results are interpreted.
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