Federal Standards: Dorchester Two Keeps Its 'A'

Dorchester County School District Two scored 90.7 on the 100-point scale to earn an A.

That was down slightly from the 91.8 of a year ago, which was also an A.

The grade, posted for each school and district statewide and released by the S.C. Department of Education on Thursday morning, is part of the federal No Child Left Behind legislation. 

State Education Superintendent Mick Zais was granted a waiver to change from the federal Annual Yearly Progress scorecard (Met/Not Met) to a new scoring system that he believed provided more depth to districts and parents.

According to SCDE spokesman Jay Ragley, every district, school (charter, magnet or traditional) and subgroup (race, gender, etc.) was given the same targets for 2013 in reading/language arts and math. And those goals represented an improvement, or increase, over 2012.

Here are the individual 2013 results for Dorchester 2 schools:

SUMMERVILLE HIGH  C  73.2

KNIGHTSVILLE ELEMENTARY  B  89.3

SUMMERVILLE ELEMENTARY  A  95.9

SPANN ELEMENTARY  B  84.3

ALSTON MIDDLE  A  92.7

R H ROLLINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL OF TH  A  100.0

NEWINGTON ELEMENTARY  A  95.1

FLOWERTOWN ELEMENTARY  B  88.3

CHARLES B DUBOSE MIDDLE  A  92.1

OAKBROOK ELEMENTARY  A  92.4

OAKBROOK MIDDLE  A  90.6

WINDSOR HILL ELEMENTARY  A  96.5

FORT DORCHESTER HIGH  B  85.8

BEECH HILL ELEMENTARY  A  98.1

GREGG MIDDLE  B  88.9

FORT DORCHESTER ELEMENTARY  A  94.2

EAGLE NEST ELEMENTARY  B  87.7

WILLIAM M REEVES ELEMENTARY  A  95.7

RIVER OAKS MIDDLE  A  92.7

ASHLEY RIDGE HIGH  C  79.8

JOSEPH R PYE ELEMENTARY  B  87.8

Also on Thursday, the state released figures on high school exit exams.

Eighty-six percent of the 1,681 Dorchester 2 students who took the exit exam for the first time passed. 

Here are Dorchester 2 schools, the number who took the test for the first time and the percent who passed: