School Board Congratulated Again For Scores On Milestones Tests

Oconee County School System Chief Operating Officer Claire Buck on Monday returned to the performance of Oconee County Schools in the Spring 2019 state Milestones assessments in her report to the Board of Education.

Anisa Sullivan Jimenez, director of Communications for the school system, had told the Board at its July 29 meeting that Oconee County Schools had performed well in the results of the state testing, released on July 26.

Buck, repeating Jimenez’ report, told the Board that “Oconee County School overall was ranked the number one school system in the state of Georgia.”

Buck didn’t identify the source of that ranking.

Jimenez earlier had confirmed that it was SchoolDigger.com, which used the state results and its own system of weighting those data to rank the Oconee County Schools as number one, beating out Buford City Schools by one one-thousands of a point.

Niche.com, another rating service, last week released its results, based in part of the state data, and it ranked Oconee County Schools as number 2, behind Buford City Schools.

In another report to the Board at Monday’s work session, Dallas LeDuff, director of Student Services, said the school system had made a number of security improvements at the county’s schools over the summer, including installation of additional cameras at both high schools and installation of a crisis alert system at all schools.

For more on this story, with a video of the Board of Education meeting on Monday, please go to Oconee County Observations.