Poverty vs Test Scores: Ranking all Ohio school districts income adjusted for their test scores on report cards cleveland.com

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Ranking all Ohio school districts (income adjusted) for their test scores on report cards; Steubenville is No. 1

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The 2018 Ohio school report cards released last week again produced a predictable result. Generally, higher income districts scored better than lower income districts.

That especially showed up in a look at the rankings for Performance Index, which is a guide for how well students in each district tested.

But, of course there are outliers.

Steubenville students, for example did a great job. Same goes for those in Girard, Hicksville and Columbiana. More than any other districts in Ohio, students there ranked significantly better for the Performance Index than their district ranking for income.

Scroll below to see how much higher, or lower, each school district ranked for Performance Index in the 2018 report card than its ranking for median federal adjusted gross income for all households in each district.

But first a little about income and grades.

Grades trend with incomes

Several factors go into the overall grade given to each district in the report cards. But, as in previous years, grades trended with income, cleveland.com found in comparing report card data to income data from the Ohio Department of Taxation.

Districts receiving A grades averaged $67,660 for median income of all households in the districts. 

Districts receiving B grades averaged $44,666, followed by $38,097 for C grades, $33,682 for D grades and $26,363 for F grades.

The listing below shows where the trends for individual districts did not follow the overall trends.

This, of course, is meant to be just another way to look at the details contained in the latest report cards; not the one and only way to do so.

Find more details about report cards for each district and school building with the cleveland.com Ohio report card searchable database. Or, take a look at the statewide rankings based solely on the Performance Index.

The scores

• Minus scores - A rating of minus 5, for example, means that the district was ranked Continue reading: Ranking all Ohio school districts (income adjusted) for their test scores on report cards; Steubenville is No. 1 | cleveland.com