Oconee County School Ranked Second In State On Average College Entrance Exam Scores

Oconee County Schools ranked second in the state in student performance in 2017 on both the ACT and the SAT college entrance exams and tied for seventh in graduation rate, school administrators told the Oconee County Board of Education at its work session on Monday.

Forsyth County Schools was the only school system that outperformed Oconee County on the ACT scores, and Buford City Schools was the only system that outperformed Oconee County on the SAT scores.

Buford scored immediately behind Oconee County on the ACT scores, and Forsyth scored immediately behind Oconee County on the SAT scores.

None of the school systems that outperformed Oconee County on the graduation rate comparisons had more than 253 graduating students in 2017. Oconee County had 549 graduates and had a graduation rate of 96.0 percent, up from 95.6 percent a year earlier.

In other reports, administrators told the Board that construction for the new Dove Creek Elementary School in the far northwest of the county is on schedule and that the system has received close to 60 responses regarding the proposed redistricting plans for the new school.

Superintendent Jason Branch also told the Board that he had determined that it will not be necessary to make up school days for Sept. 11 and 12, cancelled because of tropical storm Irma.

For more on the story, including a video of the entire BOE meeting, go to Oconee County Observations.

Pictured: Dove Creek Elementary School 9/17/2017.