Turnaround Success in South Carolina
Historic Achievement Gains in 2011
EdisonLearning partners with four of the schools that needed turnaround support in 2010-11, as determined by the South Carolina Department of Education. The schools use Alliance™, EdisonLearning’s comprehensive K-12 turnaround program designed to improve student achievement and build site capacity to ensure sustained and ongoing improvement.
The schools are: Bennettsville Middle School, Bennettsville Elementary School, Blenheim Elementary and Middle School and Scott’s Branch Middle School.
There are 1,350 students in these schools; 98% of the students are African American and 97% are eligible for free and reduced lunch.
The South Carolina Alliance schools saw outstanding gains in achievement in 2011. Achievement highlights include:
- All four schools showed strong gains in math with average gains of 11 percentage points.
- The four Alliance schools outperformed the comparable turnaround schools by meeting a greater percentage of AYP objectives:
81% of AYP objectives were met by Alliance schools
vs. 63.5% of objectives met by the other turnaround schools.
Bennettsville Middle School made historic gains in math on the 2011 PASS. The school posted their largest gains in math since the inception of NCLB. For the first time ever, the school met every AYP math objective in every category: all students, African American students, disabled students, and students receiving free or reduced lunch.
Scott’s Branch Middle School has been an EdisonLearning Alliance school since 2009. In 2010, at the close of its first year of working with EdisonLearning, Scott’s Branch Middle School made AYP and was taken off the NCLB corrective action list. The school continued to make gains in 2011 in both English/Language Arts and Math.
Testimonials: South Carolina Educators Discuss How Alliance Changed their Schools
