Raytown School District’s Ratings Drop

By Michael Downing, on September 19th, 2014

The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has released the annual report on Missouri Schools. This report is based on student test scores, attendance records, graduation rates and other data. It is refered to as MSIP 5 which is short for the 5th version of the Missouri School Improvement Program. School accreditation is dependent of the MSIP 5 score.

The Raytown School District has dropped from a 85.0% score in 2013 to 71.8% in 2014. Posted below are the scores for Raytown, Independence, Kansas City, and Lee’s Summit. Future articles on this subject will include a breakdown of scores by individual schools and a look at changes in the allocation of resources in the district over the past 8 years.