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Sixteen area schools have landed on new state lists of those facing significant challenges in academic achievement and student growth.

Under the federal law known as the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, all states had to devise a system of “Annual Meaningful Differentiation” of schools for 2018, making two lists:

• Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) schools, which “face significant challenges in academic achievement, student growth and other areas. These are among the lowest-performing 5 percent of schools statewide receiving federal Title I money or a high school with an overall graduation rat of 67 percent or lower.

• Additional Targeted Support and Improvement (A-TSI) schools where the performance of student subgroups such as economically disadvantaged, students with disabilities, English language learners or minorities performed at or below the level of the CSI schools.

Schools on both lists enter four-year improvement cycles, receiving additional assistance from the state.

Only one area school landed on the CSI list: Freeland Elementary/Middle School in the Hazleton Area district.

Fifteen local schools were on the A-TSI list for performance by specific subgroups:

Dallas — Middle School and High School, both for performance by students with disabilities.

Greater Nanticoke Area — High School, for students with disabilities and economically disadvantaged students

Hanover Area — High School for students with disabilities and those economically disadvantaged.

Hazleton Area — High school for students with disabilities and low graduation rate among English learners, McAdoo-Kelayres Elementary/Middle school for economically disadvantaged and Hispanic students.

Pittston Area — High School for students with disabilities.

Tunkhannock Area — High School for students with disabilities.

Wilkes-Barre Area — Meyers High School for students with disabilities, economically disadvantaged and Black; Coughlin High School for students with disabilities; Dodson Elementary for students with disabilities; and Solomon Plains Junior High for economically disadvantaged.

West Side Career and Technical Center — for economically disadvantaged.

Wyoming Area — Secondary Center for students with disabilities.

Wyoming Valley West — High School for students with disabilities.

Sixteen area schools have landed on new state lists of those facing significant challenges in academic achievement and student growth.
https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/web1_695556138.jpg.optimal.jpgSixteen area schools have landed on new state lists of those facing significant challenges in academic achievement and student growth. File photo

By Mark Guydish

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