Federal Standards: Berkeley County Falls to 'B'

Berkeley County School District scored 87.5 on the 100-point federal accountability scale to earn an B for 2013.

That was down nearly 3 points from 2012, when the district earned an A. 

The grade, posted for each school and district statewide and released by the S.C. Department of Education on Thursday morning, is part of the federal No Child Left Behind legislation. 

State Education Superintendent Mick Zais was granted a waiver to change from the federal Annual Yearly Progress scorecard (Met/Not Met) to a new scoring system that he believed provided more depth to districts and parents.

According to SCDE spokesman Jay Ragley, every district, school (charter, magnet or traditional) and subgroup (race, gender, etc.) was given the same targets for 2013 in reading/language arts and math. And those goals represented an improvement, or increase, over 2012.

Here are the individual 2013 results for Berkeley County schools:

STRATFORD HIGH  C  74.9

BERKELEY HIGH  D  61.2

CROSS HIGH  F  42.6

GOOSE CREEK HIGH  C  75.1

HANAHAN HIGH  C  77.8

BERKELEY MIDDLE  C  77.3

BOULDER BLUFF ELEMENTARY  B  82.5

CAINHOY ELEMENTARY/ MIDDLE  C  73.2

CROSS ELEMENTARY  A  93.6

COLLEGE PARK ELEMENTARY  A  90.9

J K GOURDIN ELEMENTARY  B  86.5

HANAHAN MIDDLE  A  97.1

WESTVIEW MIDDLE  A  93.3

HENRY E. BONNER ELEMENTARY  C  78.0

SEDGEFIELD MIDDLE  B  82.7

ST STEPHEN ELEMENTARY  C  75.4

ST STEPHEN MIDDLE  F  30.5

WHITESVILLE ELEMENTARY  C  78.5

WESTVIEW ELEMENTARY  B  87.3

COLLEGE PARK MIDDLE  F  50.3

MARRINGTON ELEMENTARY  A  99.8

MARRINGTON MIDDLE  B  88.6

HOWE HALL AIMS SCHOOL  A  99.2

MACEDONIA MIDDLE  B  85.7

SANGAREE INTERMEDIATE  A  90.9

DEVON FOREST ELEMENTARY  D  68.0

SEDGEFIELD INTERMEDIATE  C  77.0

BERKELEY INTERMEDIATE  B  87.8

TIMBERLAND HIGH  D  66.7

HANAHAN ELEMENTARY  A  95.3

SANGAREE MIDDLE  C  75.9

DANIEL ISLAND  B  84.5

CANE BAY HIGH  C  75.7

CANE BAY ELEMENTARY  B  84.4

Also on Thursday, the state released figures on high school exit exams.

More than 83 percent of the 2,053 Berkeley County students who took the exit exam for the first time passed. 

Here are Berkeley schools, the number who took the test for the first time and the percent who passed: