ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE FOR
OHIO BASKETBALL
SEMI-FINAL TEAMS - 2014
MARCH 19, 2014
PRELIMINARY VERSION
PREPARED BY SCOTT GERBER
GERBER ANALYTICS, LLC

 

This document provides the academic results for the schools in the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) basketball semi-finals. To-date, school academic results have not been included as a factor in the Competitive Balance discussion. Academics should be a significant factor since the quality of education varies considerably by school and because it is one of the most important factors for most families when selecting a high school. The purpose of this document is to bring academics into the discussion.

Another reason for doing this is to help readers gain a better understanding of each school's academic performance. As fans review basketball box scores, they carefully analyze each player's field goals, field goal attempts, free throws, free throw attempts, rebounds, assists, and three-pointers to identify strengths and weaknesses within each team. This report and the underlying links should help basketball and academic fans to identify strengths and weaknesses in each school's efforts to prepare students for the Ohio Graduation Test subject tests.

This document is based on the Ohio Graduation Test (OGT) results for Ohio's public (tax payer-funded) and private (customer-funded) schools for the March 2013 test. To insure an apples-to-apples comparison, only the tenth grader results are included.

What Was Included?

For those unfamiliar with the OGT tests, there are five parts -- Reading, Mathematics, Writing, Science, and Social Studies. There is also a summary page that shows the percentage of students who successfully passed all five parts with a “Proficient” rating. The data used in this report is from those five parts and the summary.

The Ohio Department of Education (ODE) Local Report Card data download capability was used to acquire most of the data for the public schools. The ODE provided electronic media as the source for the private school data, the charter schools, and the "percentage of students who passed all five parts" of the test for all schools.

Methodology Used

The table below includes each school's Performance Index Score (PIS); the percentage of students who passed all five portions of the Ohio Graduation Test (PASS 5%); statewide rankings for each school in the various subjects; and how the school is funded (via taxes or via its customers).

The statewide rankings range from 1 to approximately 991 in each subject and they are calculated using the Performance Index Score within each subject area. The rankings provide readers with not only academic performance information between schools, but they also identify strengths and weaknesses within schools. Click here to go to the Appendix to view the PIS calculation. See below for more information about the rankings.

To view detailed performance on each school, click on the school name.

Note that the table is long -- it contains detailed data for all of the schools that reached the basketball semi-finals. These schools are initially sorted according to their Gender and Division, but they may also be sorted by school name, county, Performance Index Score, or the Pass All Five Test %. Click on a link above to change the sort order. Click here to return to a Gender / Division sort. St. Vincent-St. Mary had both its girls and boys teams in the semi-finals.

HIGH SCHOOL /
DISTRICT
DIV
GENDER
PASS 5%
STATEWIDE RANKINGS
PAYER
READING
MATH
WRITING
SCIENCE
SOCIAL STUDIES
Lima Central Catholic
Toledo Diocese
Allen
III
Boys
108.4
93.1%
204
257
74
149
139
Cust
East Technical
Cleveland Municipal SD
Cuyahoga
I
Boys
66.5
12.8%
978
957
969
981
938
Tax
St Edward
Cleveland Catholic Diocese
Cuyahoga
I
Boys
109.1
86.3%
132
151
81
109
203
Cust
Villa Angela-St Joseph
Cleveland Catholic Diocese
Cuyahoga
III
Boys
97.3
67.1%
598
747
295
711
777
Cust
Tri-Village
Tri-Village Local
Darke
IV
Boys
100.2
66.7%
601
390
568
619
670
Tax
Versailles
Versailles Exempted Village
Darke
III
Girls
108.8
85.6%
133
50
235
242
113
Tax
Bishop Ready
Columbus Diocese
Franklin
III
Boys
109.5
89.3%
87
210
140
177
47
Cust
Bishop Watterson
Columbus Diocese
Franklin
II
Boys
112.2
96.1%
43
53
68
56
20
Cust
Columbus Africentric Early College
Columbus City
Franklin
III
Girls
91.2
48.1%
776
817
829
829
674
Tax
Dublin Coffman
Dublin City
Franklin
I
Girls
110.8
91.5%
77
93
126
58
63
Tax
Harvest Preparatory
Harvest Preparatory
Franklin
IV
Boys
97.9
68.6%
600
762
635
664
593
Cust
Upper Arlington
Upper Arlington City
Franklin
I
Boys
112.8
95.1%
57
23
59
31
16
Tax
Princeton
Princeton City
Hamilton
I
Girls
98.4
63.9%
719
707
531
712
510
Tax
Roger Bacon
Cincinnati Archdiocese
Hamilton
III
Boys
106.7
85.7%
224
260
244
305
150
Cust
HIGH SCHOOL /
DISTRICT
DIV
GENDER
PIS
PASS 5%
STATEWIDE RANKINGS
PAYER
READING
MATH
WRITING
SCIENCE
SOCIAL STUDIES
Holgate
Holgate Local
Henry
IV
Girls
102.0
73.9%
358
333
350
569
684
Tax
West Holmes
West Holmes Local
Holmes
II
Girls
100.5
75.5%
684
561
662
584
354
Tax
Norwalk
Norwalk City
Huron
II
Boys
100.1
70.9%
688
464
672
565
554
Tax
Fairland
Fairland Local
Lawrence
III
Girls
107.1
84.3%
234
267
263
197
161
Tax
Notre Dame Academy
Toledo Diocese
Lucas
I
Girls
110.8
96.4%
55
90
11
92
142
Cust
Rogers
Toledo City
Lucas
II
Girls
84.9
45.9%
861
856
830
862
865
Tax
Eastern
Eastern Local
Meigs
IV
Girls
101.0
75.4%
643
569
474
613
406
Tax
Archbishop Alter
Cincinnati Archdiocese
Montgomery
II
Girls
110.5
91.9%
101
98
83
101
61
Cust
Thurgood Marshall
Dayton City
Montgomery
II
Boys
81.0
33.6%
915
916
887
887
843
Tax
Trotwood-Madison
Trotwood-Madison City
Montgomery
I
Boys
89.3
46.6%
825
834
813
840
769
Tax
Bishop Rosecrans
Columbus Diocese
Muskingum
IV
Girls
106.0
76.9%
387
269
106
252
357
Cust
Fort Loramie
Fort Loramie Local
Shelby
IV
Girls
107.7
83.3%
242
60
268
151
303
Tax
Hoover
North Canton City
Stark
I
Girls
110.1
90.0%
164
116
70
135
51
Tax
St Thomas Aquinas
Youngstown Diocese
Stark
IV
Boys
105.0
77.6%
404
394
122
387
316
Cust
St Vincent-St Mary
Cleveland Catholic Diocese
Summit
II
Girls
111.5
94.9%
118
62
76
44
40
Cust
HIGH SCHOOL /
DISTRICT
DIV
GENDER
PIS
PASS 5%
STATEWIDE RANKINGS
PAYER
READING
MATH
WRITING
SCIENCE
SOCIAL STUDIES
St Vincent-St Mary
Cleveland Catholic Diocese
Summit
II
Boys
111.5
94.9%
118
62
76
44
40
Cust
Convoy Crestview
Crestview Local
Van Wert
IV
Boys
106.1
76.8%
244
392
346
294
121
Tax
Smithville
Green Local
Wayne
III
Girls
105.1
78.7%
318
219
577
258
293
Tax

Comparative Analysis

While the performance numbers and trend charts are beneficial, what sets this web site apart from others is the comparative analysis that this site permits with other schools and within schools.

An example of a side-by-side comparison is here with Lakota East and Lakota West. As with most schools within the same school system, the results are similar.

Looking at a comparison within a school, Lakota East excels in Reading and Social Studies. Lakota West is stronger in Mathematics and Reading. Lakota East is also substantially better in Reading and Social Studies than Lakota West.

One of the goals for this web site is to encourage communities to become better informed and to ask questions. I believe these tools encourage this.

Graphs and More Graphs

Viewing five year trend charts are a great way to evaluate schools. Normally, this amount of information is not shared in these series of documents, but an exception will be made this time.

Click on the following link to view the graphs for all of these schools. Click on the next link to return to normal viewing.

Note that these graphs only reflect those students who took the test as 10th graders. Also note that these graphs are for boys and girls.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ranking List for All Schools

For the complete ranking list of all schools in Ohio, click here.

Map of Ohio High Schools

To easily visualize the basketball semi-final schools and all Ohio schools, click the map image below for the Northwest, Northeast, Central, Southwest, and Southeast / East schools. Schools are color-coded by academic performance using the Performance Index Score.

 
   
 
Click on an image to see a Google map of that area.
Readers may use the map scroll bar on the left to navigate the map.

Hover over the marker to see the school name. Click on the marker to see the school's Performance Index Score.

The satellite view is also available via the controls on the upper right.

Continuous Improvement

A major benefit of the Internet is that it is relatively easy to improve existing products and services. This report will likely be enhanced over time. The date of the report will be changed to reflect any changes.

Corrections / Attribution

Does this document include any mistakes? Hopefully not, the data was carefully entered and the numbers were double checked, but it is possible. Please send a Feedback message with any significant discrepancies. The revised document will be updated and placed online.

While it would certainly be great to profit from this effort, please record the last seven years of this education analysis as a pro-bono or volunteer effort. I do this type of analysis because I enjoy doing it. I am also hopeful that it will benefit an extremely large number of Ohioans.

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I have a substantial "one-of-a-kind" database, and I am open to new analysis projects. If you have an education-related analysis project in mind that you think would benefit all Ohio schools, please contact me.

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Scott Gerber
Gerber Analytics, LLC
GerberAnalytics.com

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Calculation of Performance Index Score (Adjusted)

Note that the Performance Index Score (Adjusted) is different from what you may have seen on the Ohio Department of Education’s Report Card. The calculation in this document is only for the 10th grade students. It was calculated as follows:

Ada High School


Subject
Below Basic Basic Proficient Accelerated Advanced

 

Mathematics 9.4% 9.4% 24.5% 20.8% 35.8%  
Reading 3.8% 5.7% 43.4% 35.8% 11.3%  
Science 3.8% 18.9% 26.4% 22.6% 28.3%  
Social Studies 15.1% 9.4% 24.5% 22.6% 28.3%  
Writing 5.7% 5.7% 39.6% 47.2% 1.9%  
             
Total of Above 37.7% 49.1% 158.5% 149.1% 105.7%  
Average of 5 7.5% 9.8% 31.7% 29.8% 21.1%  
Factor

0.3 0.6 1 1.1 1.2  
            Summation
Average * Factor 2.3 5.9 31.7 32.8 25.4 98

The new "Advanced Plus" designation was used randomly for some schools. To insure an "apples-to-apples" comparison, the percentage of students scoring "Advanced Plus" was added to the Advance category.