ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE FOR
OHIO BASKETBALL
SEMI-FINAL TEAMS - 2014
MARCH 19, 2014
PRELIMINARY VERSION
PREPARED BY SCOTT GERBER
GERBER ANALYTICS, LLC
This document provides the academic results for the schools in the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) basketball semi-finals. To-date, school academic results have not been included as a factor in the Competitive Balance discussion. Academics should be a significant factor since the quality of education varies considerably by school and because it is one of the most important factors for most families when selecting a high school. The purpose of this document is to bring academics into the discussion.
Another reason for doing this is to help readers gain a better understanding of each school's academic performance. As fans review basketball box scores, they carefully analyze each player's field goals, field goal attempts, free throws, free throw attempts, rebounds, assists, and three-pointers to identify strengths and weaknesses within each team. This report and the underlying links should help basketball and academic fans to identify strengths and weaknesses in each school's efforts to prepare students for the Ohio Graduation Test subject tests.
This document is based on the Ohio Graduation Test (OGT) results for Ohio's public (tax payer-funded) and private (customer-funded) schools for the March 2013 test. To insure an apples-to-apples comparison, only the tenth grader results are included.
What Was Included?
For those unfamiliar with the OGT tests, there are five parts -- Reading, Mathematics, Writing, Science, and Social Studies. There is also a summary page that shows the percentage of students who successfully passed all five parts with a “Proficient” rating. The data used in this report is from those five parts and the summary.
The Ohio Department of Education (ODE) Local Report Card data download capability was used to acquire most of the data for the public schools. The ODE provided electronic media as the source for the private school data, the charter schools, and the "percentage of students who passed all five parts" of the test for all schools.
Methodology Used
The table below includes each school's Performance Index Score (PIS); the percentage of students who passed all five portions of the Ohio Graduation Test (PASS 5%); statewide rankings for each school in the various subjects; and how the school is funded (via taxes or via its customers).
The statewide rankings range from 1 to approximately 991 in each subject and they are calculated using the Performance Index Score within each subject area. The rankings provide readers with not only academic performance information between schools, but they also identify strengths and weaknesses within schools. Click here to go to the Appendix to view the PIS calculation. See below for more information about the rankings.
To view detailed performance on each school, click on the school name.
Note that the table is long -- it contains detailed data for all of the schools that reached the basketball semi-finals. These schools are initially sorted according to their Gender and Division, but they may also be sorted by school name, county, Performance Index Score, or the Pass All Five Test %. Click on a link above to change the sort order. Click here to return to a Gender / Division sort. St. Vincent-St. Mary had both its girls and boys teams in the semi-finals.
| HIGH SCHOOL / DISTRICT |
DIV GENDER |
PASS 5% |
STATEWIDE RANKINGS |
PAYER |
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READING |
MATH |
WRITING |
SCIENCE |
SOCIAL STUDIES |
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| Archbishop Alter Cincinnati Archdiocese |
Montgomery | II Girls |
110.5 |
91.9%
|
101
|
98
|
83
|
101
|
61
|
Cust |
| Bishop Ready Columbus Diocese |
Franklin | III Boys |
109.5 |
89.3%
|
87
|
210
|
140
|
177
|
47
|
Cust |
| Bishop Rosecrans Columbus Diocese |
Muskingum | IV Girls |
106.0 |
76.9%
|
387
|
269
|
106
|
252
|
357
|
Cust |
| Bishop Watterson Columbus Diocese |
Franklin | II Boys |
112.2 |
96.1%
|
43
|
53
|
68
|
56
|
20
|
Cust |
| Columbus Africentric Early College Columbus City |
Franklin | III Girls |
91.2 |
48.1%
|
776
|
817
|
829
|
829
|
674
|
Tax |
| Convoy Crestview Crestview Local |
Van Wert | IV Boys |
106.1 |
76.8%
|
244
|
392
|
346
|
294
|
121
|
Tax |
| Dublin Coffman Dublin City |
Franklin | I Girls |
110.8 |
91.5%
|
77
|
93
|
126
|
58
|
63
|
Tax |
| East Technical Cleveland Municipal SD |
Cuyahoga | I Boys |
66.5 |
12.8%
|
978
|
957
|
969
|
981
|
938
|
Tax |
| Eastern Eastern Local |
Meigs | IV Girls |
101.0 |
75.4%
|
643
|
569
|
474
|
613
|
406
|
Tax |
| Fairland Fairland Local |
Lawrence | III Girls |
107.1 |
84.3%
|
234
|
267
|
263
|
197
|
161
|
Tax |
| Fort Loramie Fort Loramie Local |
Shelby | IV Girls |
107.7 |
83.3%
|
242
|
60
|
268
|
151
|
303
|
Tax |
| Harvest Preparatory Harvest Preparatory |
Franklin | IV Boys |
97.9 |
68.6%
|
600
|
762
|
635
|
664
|
593
|
Cust |
| Holgate Holgate Local |
Henry | IV Girls |
102.0 |
73.9%
|
358
|
333
|
350
|
569
|
684
|
Tax |
| Hoover North Canton City |
Stark | I Girls |
110.1 |
90.0%
|
164
|
116
|
70
|
135
|
51
|
Tax |
| HIGH SCHOOL / DISTRICT |
DIV GENDER |
PIS |
PASS 5% |
STATEWIDE RANKINGS |
PAYER |
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READING |
MATH |
WRITING |
SCIENCE |
SOCIAL STUDIES |
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| Lima Central Catholic Toledo Diocese |
Allen | III Boys |
108.4 |
93.1%
|
204
|
257
|
74
|
149
|
139
|
Cust |
| Norwalk Norwalk City |
Huron | II Boys |
100.1 |
70.9%
|
688
|
464
|
672
|
565
|
554
|
Tax |
| Notre Dame Academy Toledo Diocese |
Lucas | I Girls |
110.8 |
96.4%
|
55
|
90
|
11
|
92
|
142
|
Cust |
| Princeton Princeton City |
Hamilton | I Girls |
98.4 |
63.9%
|
719
|
707
|
531
|
712
|
510
|
Tax |
| Roger Bacon Cincinnati Archdiocese |
Hamilton | III Boys |
106.7 |
85.7%
|
224
|
260
|
244
|
305
|
150
|
Cust |
| Rogers Toledo City |
Lucas | II Girls |
84.9 |
45.9%
|
861
|
856
|
830
|
862
|
865
|
Tax |
| Smithville Green Local |
Wayne | III Girls |
105.1 |
78.7%
|
318
|
219
|
577
|
258
|
293
|
Tax |
| St Edward Cleveland Catholic Diocese |
Cuyahoga | I Boys |
109.1 |
86.3%
|
132
|
151
|
81
|
109
|
203
|
Cust |
| St Thomas Aquinas Youngstown Diocese |
Stark | IV Boys |
105.0 |
77.6%
|
404
|
394
|
122
|
387
|
316
|
Cust |
| St Vincent-St Mary Cleveland Catholic Diocese |
Summit | II Girls |
111.5 |
94.9%
|
118
|
62
|
76
|
44
|
40
|
Cust |
| St Vincent-St Mary Cleveland Catholic Diocese |
Summit | II Boys |
111.5 |
94.9%
|
118
|
62
|
76
|
44
|
40
|
Cust |
| Thurgood Marshall Dayton City |
Montgomery | II Boys |
81.0 |
33.6%
|
915
|
916
|
887
|
887
|
843
|
Tax |
| Tri-Village Tri-Village Local |
Darke | IV Boys |
100.2 |
66.7%
|
601
|
390
|
568
|
619
|
670
|
Tax |
| Trotwood-Madison Trotwood-Madison City |
Montgomery | I Boys |
89.3 |
46.6%
|
825
|
834
|
813
|
840
|
769
|
Tax |
| Upper Arlington Upper Arlington City |
Franklin | I Boys |
112.8 |
95.1%
|
57
|
23
|
59
|
31
|
16
|
Tax |
| HIGH SCHOOL / DISTRICT |
DIV GENDER |
PIS |
PASS 5% |
STATEWIDE RANKINGS |
PAYER |
|||||
READING |
MATH |
WRITING |
SCIENCE |
SOCIAL STUDIES |
||||||
| Versailles Versailles Exempted Village |
Darke | III Girls |
108.8 |
85.6%
|
133
|
50
|
235
|
242
|
113
|
Tax |
| Villa Angela-St Joseph Cleveland Catholic Diocese |
Cuyahoga | III Boys |
97.3 |
67.1%
|
598
|
747
|
295
|
711
|
777
|
Cust |
| West Holmes West Holmes Local |
Holmes | II Girls |
100.5 |
75.5%
|
684
|
561
|
662
|
584
|
354
|
Tax |
Comparative Analysis
While the performance numbers and trend charts are beneficial, what sets this web site apart from others is the comparative analysis that this site permits with other schools and within schools.
An example of a side-by-side comparison is here with Lakota East and Lakota West. As with most schools within the same school system, the results are similar.
Looking at a comparison within a school, Lakota East excels in Reading and Social Studies. Lakota West is stronger in Mathematics and Reading. Lakota East is also substantially better in Reading and Social Studies than Lakota West.
One of the goals for this web site is to encourage communities to become better informed and to ask questions. I believe these tools encourage this.
Graphs and More Graphs
Viewing five year trend charts are a great way to evaluate schools. Normally, this amount of information is not shared in these series of documents, but an exception will be made this time.
Click on the following link to view the graphs for all of these schools. Click on the next link to return to normal viewing.
Note that these graphs only reflect those students who took the test as 10th graders. Also note that these graphs are for boys and girls.
Ranking List for All Schools
For the complete ranking list of all schools in Ohio, click here.
Map of Ohio High Schools
To easily visualize the basketball semi-final schools and all Ohio schools, click the map image below for the Northwest, Northeast, Central, Southwest, and Southeast / East schools. Schools are color-coded by academic performance using the Performance Index Score.
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Hover over the marker to see the school name. Click on the marker to see the school's Performance Index Score.
The satellite view is also available via the controls on the upper right.
Continuous Improvement
A major benefit of the Internet is that it is relatively easy to improve existing products and services. This report will likely be enhanced over time. The date of the report will be changed to reflect any changes.
Corrections / Attribution
Does this document include any mistakes? Hopefully not, the data was carefully entered and the numbers were double checked, but it is possible. Please send a Feedback message with any significant discrepancies. The revised document will be updated and placed online.
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Calculation of Performance Index Score (Adjusted)
Note that the Performance Index Score (Adjusted) is different from what you may have seen on the Ohio Department of Education’s Report Card. The calculation in this document is only for the 10th grade students. It was calculated as follows:
Ada High School
Subject |
Below Basic | Basic | Proficient | Accelerated | Advanced |
|
| Mathematics | 9.4% | 9.4% | 24.5% | 20.8% | 35.8% | |
| Reading | 3.8% | 5.7% | 43.4% | 35.8% | 11.3% | |
| Science | 3.8% | 18.9% | 26.4% | 22.6% | 28.3% | |
| Social Studies | 15.1% | 9.4% | 24.5% | 22.6% | 28.3% | |
| Writing | 5.7% | 5.7% | 39.6% | 47.2% | 1.9% | |
| Total of Above | 37.7% | 49.1% | 158.5% | 149.1% | 105.7% | |
| Average of 5 | 7.5% | 9.8% | 31.7% | 29.8% | 21.1% | |
| Factor | 0.3 | 0.6 | 1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | |
| Summation | ||||||
| Average * Factor | 2.3 | 5.9 | 31.7 | 32.8 | 25.4 | 98 |
The new "Advanced Plus" designation was used randomly for some schools. To insure an "apples-to-apples" comparison, the percentage of students scoring "Advanced Plus" was added to the Advance category.