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| Kolo Club. Hoboken American Legion Post 107 - Jan 2018 |
New Jersey education officials have for the first time assigned a score of 1 to 100 to each of the state's more than 2,000 public schools. The new ratings consider important factors the state uses to determine which schools need the most help which is a federal requirement.
These school scores are similar to a letter grade at the top of a student's essay, with the rest of the report card containing important context, such as a teacher's comments.
In a statement, the state Department of Education said it designed the new ratings to comply with the Every Student Succeeds Act, the new federal education law that replaced No Child Left Behind.
The law requires states to "meaningfully differentiate" schools' performance based on a variety of metrics and publish that information on school report cards, said Julie Woods, a policy analyst for the Education Commission of the States, which tracks state policy.
Nationwide, 45 states and the District of Columbia use some form of summative rating, such as a 1-100 rating, A-F rating or labels like "great," "good" and "excellent," Woods said.
School- Summative Rating (Summative Score)
Calabro Elementary School - 84 (73.3)
Wallace Elementary School- 37 (41.7)
Hoboken High School- 17 (22.7)
Hoboken Middle School- 8 (18.4)
Connors Elementary School- 7 (16)
Of the 97 public schools scored in Hudson County, Calabro is ranked 10th; Wallace Elementary is ranked 50th; Hoboken High School is ranked 83rd; Hoboken Middle School is ranked 88th and Connors Elementary School is ranked 89th.
