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A look at the graduation rates in the two systems
Graduation rates are a key indicator of a
school system’s success.
Floyd County, where Superintendent Jeff
McDaniel comes from, has 5 high schools. The
listed graduation rates are a combined percent
age.
Floyd
2017 - 94.3% (First full year without Dr. Mc
Daniel as Supt.)
2016 - 77.1% (Most of the academic year
without Dr. McDaniel as Supt. The budget for
this year was based on work Dr. McDaniel and
his staff in Floyd County did.)
2015 - 90.3% (Dr. McDaniel full year as
Supt.)
2014 - 83% (Dr. McDaniel full year as Supt.)
2013 - 78% (Dr. McDaniel present most of
the school year as Supt.)
Turner
2017 - no numbers given on state Department
of Education website reporting form. As re
ported to the Board of Education by Dr. Mc
Daniel, the overall rate was 81.1 percent.
The DOE breaks out graduation rates into
two groups for Turner County: the high school
and the alternate school. The two combined give
the total graduation rate.
Dr. McDaniel reported the high school grad
uated 86 of 89 students for a grad rate of 96.6
percent. At the alternate school, none of the 17
students graduated for an effective grad rate of
0 percent, according to the DOE. The superin
tendent said he was not convinced those num
bers are accurate.
A 0 grad rate for alternate school students is
possible, based on the alternate school students
grad rate history as reported by the Department
of Education.
2016 - 84.5% all (combined rate as the Alt
School is not broken out)
2015 - 75% (19% at Alt school, 89.9% at HS
2014 - 77.1% (0 grads from alt school; 94.9%
at HS)
2013 - 71.2% (0 alt school, 89.5% HS)
Snapshots - https://schoolgrades.georgia.gov/turner-county and https://schoolgrades.georgia.gov/floyd-county
Year
Turner County
2017
F
2016
D
2015
C
59.4
Grade conversion
A 90-100
[ B 80 - 89.9
[ C 70 - 79.9
D 60 - 69.9
[ F 0 - 59.9
• Turner County's overall performance is higher than 4% of districts.
• Its elementary students' academic growth is higher than 14% of districts.
• Its middle school students' academic growth is higher than 11% of districts.
• Its high school students' academic growth is higher than 2% of districts.
• 51.6% of its 3rd grade students are reading at or above the grade level tar
get.
• 46.4% of its 8th grade students are reading at or above the grade level tar
get.
• Its four-year graduation rate is 81.1%, which is higher than 19% of districts.
• 49.2% of graduates are college ready.
Year
Floyd County
2017
C
2016
C
2015
c
Grade conversion
A 1
90-100
B J
80-89.9
c Hi
70-79.9
d
60-69.9
F
0 - 59.9
• Floyd County's overall performance is higher than 71% of districts.
• Its elementary students' academic growth is higher than 66% of districts.
• Its middle school students' academic growth is higher than 59% of districts.
• Its high school students' academic growth is higher than 77% of districts.
• 57.2% of its 3rd grade students are reading at or above the grade level tar
get.
• 71.5% of its 8th grade students are reading at or above the grade level tar
get.
• Its four-year graduation rate is 94.3%, which is higher than 90% of districts.
• 52.5% of graduates are college ready.
Turner CCRPI scores
2015 (2014-15 school year)
CCRPI
Elementary 74.6
Middle 72
High 64.5
2016 (T5-T6 year. Partial year
for Dr. McDaniel - no input on
budget)
ES 72.1
MS 71.5
HS 54.5
2017 (T6-T7 year. Dr. Mc
Daniel’s first full year as super
intendent and working under
the budget he presented.)
ES 58.8
MS 53.3
HS 58.2
Floyd County scores
2012 (2011 data)
ES 73.8
MS 72.3
HS 79.6
2013 (Dr. McDaniel as su
perintendent most of the
school year. Limited input into
budget)
ES 78.7 (77.8 state average)
MS 73.8 (74.6 state)
HS 72.5 (71.8 state)
2014 (Dr. McDaniel as su
perintendent all year. BOE op
erating under budget he
presented.)
ES 71.7 (72.7 state)
MS 73.4(73.8 state)
HS 68.6 (68.4 state)
2015 (Dr. McDaniel as su
perintendent all year)
ES 69.9 (76 state)
MS 60.5 (71.2 state)
HS 79.6 (75.8 state)
2016 (Dr. McDaniel left in
August 2015. The budget for
this year was based on work
Dr. McDaniel and his staff in
Floyd County did.)
ES 69.5
MS 64.3
HS 71.8
2017 (First full budget year
after Dr. McDaniel is gone.)
ES 74.4
MS 72.1
HS 83.6
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SCHOOL
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since the numbers came out.
“We have strategies moving
forward. We are reorganizing
the central office. What is our
best place to get people out and
support the schools?” he said.
Dr. McDaniel has said
many times he was brought to
Turner County by the School
Board to balance the budget.
Prior to his arrival, the Board
borrowed as much as $1.25
million during the last sum
mer-early fall to make ends
meet. The money was paid
back when ad valorem taxes
came in. Under his administra
tion, the BOE now has a
budget surplus enough to cover
the funding gap in late sum
mer-early fall.
FLOYD COUNTY
Dr. McDaniel came to
Turner County from Floyd
County. A check of the infor
mation from Floyd County
shows a drop in school per
formance while he was there,
followed by a rise in the year
after he was gone. He became
superintendent there in Nov.
2012.
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Dr. McDaniel said he’d
have to go back and look at the
Floyd County scores before
commenting on the specifics.
“The CCRPI in the years I
was there, we saw an uptick in
the data,” he said. “In my two
major years, 2013 and 2014,
we scored about the state aver
age in CCRPI.”
Floyd County was a differ
ent set of circumstances. We’ll
get the same things here,”
GRAD RATE
Another indicator is the
graduation rate. (See sidebar)
Floyd County wobbled back
and forth, but the peak gradu-
rate listed of 94.3 percent
(2016-17 year grads) was a
system high of 94.3 percent.
That was after McDaniel left.
The rate rose twice in his
three years there, then took a
15 point dip as he was on the
way out.
In Turner County, the com
bined grad rate rose by nearly
10 points during his partial
year here and dropped back for
his first full year here.
The Department of Educa
tion split the alternate school
graduation rate from the high
school graduation rate for sev
eral years.
The high school-only grad
uation rate did hit a high of
96.6 percent for the most 2016-
17 school year.
BRING IT TOGETHER
Dr. McDaniel said the other
reason he was brought to
Turner County was to improve
the graduation rate.
“If you fix the graduation
rate, the CCPRI will fall into
suite. We’re going to improve
CCRPI,” he said. “ Moving
schools, establishing acade
mies and reorganizing in gen
eral are strategies that will in
time be beneficial for improv
ing student achievement. “
The charts below show Turner County’s performance compared to other
schools within the same Regional Education Service Area (RESA)
MS CCRPI Scores
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
Atkinson
72
72.7
72.4
72.7
69.2
77
Ben Hill
66.5
73.7
82.5
72.2
72.1
64.3
Brooks
68.5
63.4
69.5
56.7
65.4
64.6
Charlton
67.4
73.5
67.7
70.8
72.4
76.5
Clinch
79.4
66.3
78.2
59.7
62.6
66.4
Crisp
71.2
71.3
75.4
68.5
62.4
61.4
Irwin
62.9
68.7
69.1
60.6
64.1
63.9
Tift
80.6
79.3
66.9
65.1
65
63
Turner
56.3
58.7
72.2
76.7
73.3
58.3
Wilcox
76.4
68.6
65
69.2
75.6
77.5
Worth
63.1
76
74.9
60.2
62.7
72.6
HS CCRPI Scores
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
Atkinson
60.4
85.1
79.8
88.5
78.5
79.6
Ben Hill
73.1
74.2
59.4
67.1
67.8
64.7
Brooks
76.3
68.7
58.2
68.8
75.8
62.8
Charlton
79
81
68
72.4
82.3
59.5
Clinch
80.2
77.6
74.2
77.1
75.7
78.6
Cook
73.9
77.2
67.2
76.9
74.3
70.2
Crisp
68.6
69.9
65.7
67.8
71
73.5
Irwin
76.4
68
67.3
78.6
68
83.3
Tift
72.7
68.2
66.9
73.3
83.6
86
Turner
81.6
67.6
75
73
57.3
58.2
Wilcox
64.7
65.6
59.3
77
78.8
74.7
Worth
65.1
71.3
59.6
76.3
72
76.4
CoHort Graduation rate
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
Atkinson
77.9
78.1
81.9
80.8
81.3
87
Ben Hill
73.7
83.5
74.2
80.5
79.6
79.3
Brooks
70.1
65.5
67.3
78.7
77.8
69.1
Charlton
80
82.4
74.8
78.4
79.8
72.6
Clinch
76.7
75.5
87.2
87.6
86.2
86.9
Cook
76.5
79.1
82.1
80.4
84.4
86.4
Crisp
62.9
61.4
70.5
78.8
84.9
85.8
Dooly
58.9
73.6
73.4
74.4
75.3
75.4
Floyd
75.7
78
83
90.2
93.1
94.3
Irwin
65.8
66.7
75.3
83.9
88.5
88.9
Lanier
76.2
70.1
72.3
76.2
75
79.7
Tift
77.9
78.9
74.4
83.1
84
84.5
Turner
74.3
71.2
94.9
75
84.5
81.1
Wilcox
60.2
65.3
63.4
85.7
92.8
89.7
Worth
72.3
74.4
80.4
76.2
77
78.3