KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Annual performance reports released Friday for Kansas City Public Schools has the district confident that it will regain full accreditation next year. At Central Middle School, Superintendent Stephen Green is celebrating the gains made by students.
The state report card released to the public today shows the Kansas City district in the provisional range for the second year in a row. 13 of the district’s schools achieved scores that qualify for full accreditation.
Eight other schools scored in the provisional accreditation range.
The gains made by students here for the three consecutive years represent statistically significant growth in language, math and college and career readiness. Green says he’s confident the district will receive full accreditation next year.
“I contend that no urban school district anywhere in the United States has done what we’re doing as fast as we are doing it,” Green said. “For a district that has been as low as we were two years ago and to have risen to this level as fast as we have, even against what many would consider to be insurmountable odds, is unprecedented.”
Green cited the opening of Central Middle School, where he announced the results, and Northeast Middle School, as helping the district make the progress needed for full accreditation. Other steps include: Providing a laptop to every student, tripling the enrollment in the early college campus and improving safety and security for all kids.
The district received provisional accreditation earlier this month. Green is hopeful the gains will make parents who’ve left the district for charter schools think twice about coming back.
