Two SCCPSS High Schools Recognized with Statewide Accountability Awards

New Hampstead High School and Woodville-Tompkins Technical & Career High School have both been recognized with 2024 Single Statewide Accountability Awards by the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement.  The schools are recognized in the Greatest Gains Category based on the most recent College and Career Ready Performance Index scores.

Awards are given to schools with high academic performance and/or high academic growth.  Only 146 schools in the state, from all grade levels, were recognized as 2024 Greatest Gains schools.

The Greatest Gains award category has four tiers: Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze. New Hampstead High School was awarded Silver for exhibiting high growth in student achievement over the last three years that has placed in the top 5% of schools in the state.

Schools must meet the following criteria to be determined Silver winners:

·         Place between the 95th and 97th percentile statewide in the average CCRPI Progress Score over the last three years;

·         Earn a CCRPI Single Score in 2024 that is no more than 10 points lower than the CCRPI Single Score in 2019; and

·         Be excluded from the Governor's Office of Student Achievement's 2024 Georgia Promise Scholarship Public School List. and the Georgia Department of Education's 2024 Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CST) and Targeted Support and Improvement (TSI) lists.

Woodville-Tompkins Technical and Career High School was awarded the highest-level Platinum Award – one of only fifteen schools in the state to be recognized at that level for exhibiting high growth in student achievement with academic growth over the last three years in the top 1% of schools in the state.

Schools must meet the following criteria to receive a Platinum level award:

·         Place in the 99th percentile or higher statewide in the average CCRPI Progress Score over the last three years

·         Earn a CCRPI Single Score in 2024 that is no more than 10 points lower than the CCRPI Single Score in 2019,

·         Be excluded from the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement’s 2024 Georgia Promise Scholarship Public School List, and the Georgia Department of Education’s 2024 Comprehensive Support and Improvement and Targeted Support and Improvement Lists.

In the letters to principals informing them of the award, GOSA Executive Director Joy Hawkins said, “It takes the collaborative effort of teachers, principals, and parents working with students to achieve this level of success, and I applaud your entire school community for this accomplishment.”  Congratulations to all!