Columbia Public Schools to learn performance rate in annual report card

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Columbia Public Schools is set to to learn its performance rate in annual district achievement report card and will be released to the public Monday morning.

The report, better known as the APR, is the districts achievement report card from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The report is based on numbers from last school and determines how the district is performing in areas like student achievement and how ready students are for college and careers.

In a report that was released in January, it revealed that CPS was showing improvement from the previous year, but not at a fast enough rate.

CPS received more than 92% of possible improvement points and fewer than 62% of possible point performance. In its performance numbers, CPS was designated as “approaching” for language, arts, and math and “on track” for social studies and science. However, CPS was considered “below average” in academic achievement growth for language arts as well as its “student group” in mathematics. Student Group is five specialty categories which include students with special needs and black and Hispanic students) 

One contributing factor to low-performance scores is attendance. The presentation showed that students whose attendance surpassed 90% scored significantly higher in proficiency rates in MAP testing scores than students whose attendance dipped below 90%.

The pandemic significantly affected attendance rates across the state, with CPS dropping from 84.7% in 2019 to 73.6% in 2023 according to data from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.