CISD officials announced that the district received eight Gold Performance Acknowledgments from the Texas Education Agency. The GPA system acknowledges districts and campuses for high performance on indicators other than those used to determine accountability ratings.

CISD and Coahoma High School both received acknowledgements for college-ready graduates.

This measures the progress schools make toward preparing students for college and other post-high school programs. It also shows the percent of graduates who scored at or above the criterion score on the TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills) exit-level exam, as well as other standardized tests.

CISD Superintendent Randy Brown also noted that graduates were also recognized for out-performing their peers from across the state in all areas of the ACT in a report released earlier this year.  

Also, the district and high school both received acknowledgements in English/Language Arts Higher Education Readiness, which shows the percent of  11th-graders who are considered ready to begin college-level work, based on their performance on the TAKS exit-level examination.

The high school and junior high campuses also received an acknowledgement for Comparable Improvement in Math. The junior high also received this recognition for improvement in Reading/ELA.

Comparable Improvement calculates how student performance on the TAKS test has changed from one year to the next, and compares the change to that of the 40 similar schools in the state. For acknowledgment in this area, the campus must have an average Texas Growth Index (TGI) within the top 25 percent of its 40-member campus comparison group.

Coahoma Elementary received an acknowledgement for commended performance in Writing.  

TAKS Commended Performance is the highest performance level set by the State Board of Education on the TAKS, Brown said.

Students who achieve Commended Performance status have performed at a level that is considerably above the state passing standard and have shown a thorough understanding of the knowledge and skills at the grade level tested, he noted.

For acknowledgment on this indicator, the campus or district must have 25 percent or more of its students scoring at or above the Commended Performance standard.

 “These awards and ratings confirm that great things are happening at Coahoma,” Brown said.  “Our teachers and students are working hard to make sure that the students are academically prepared for state testing requirements, graduation and college.”

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