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Herbert A. Wood Elementary

Principal: Angela Brown

Phone:
803-755-7420
School Address:
737 Pine Ridge Drive West Columbia, SC 29172
Serving Grades: PK-5
Student Enrollment: 962

2023-2024 Overall Rating

Below Average
40 out of 100
School performance is in jeopardy of not meeting the criteria to ensure all students meet the Profile of the SC Graduate

Support Status: Standard

Academic Achievement

Questions about what your child should be learning in school?

NOTE: Additional Achievement results disaggregated across subgroups can be found in the Download Data section of this website as well as on the State Assessment Results pages.

Overall Student Performance

SC Ready English Language Arts and Mathematics

English Language Arts (Reading and Writing) - Percent Met or Exceeding

School 39.7%    (115 / 290)
39.7%
District 40.0%    (1375 / 3439)
40.0%
State 54.1%    (184228 / 340256)
54.1%

Mathematics - Percent Met or Exceeding

School 32.4%    (94 / 290)
32.4%
District 30.5%    (1048 / 3439)
30.5%
State 42.8%    (145531 / 340271)
42.8%


Additional Information

Our School Change from Last Year
Prime instructional time 87.7 Up from 84.9

Academic Achievement

Details Student Performance across District and State

SC READY English Language Arts and Mathematics

English Language Arts (Reading and Writing)

Note: Results from alternate assessments were included in the calculations where available.


Not TestedDoes Not Meet ExpectationsApproaches ExpectationsMeets ExpectationsExceeds Expectations
Our School 0.0 35.9 24.5 20.7 19.0
Not TestedDoes Not Meet ExpectationsApproaches ExpectationsMeets ExpectationsExceeds Expectations
Our District 0.3 33.8 25.9 22.9 17.0
Not TestedDoes Not Meet ExpectationsApproaches ExpectationsMeets ExpectationsExceeds Expectations
Statewide 0.6 21.9 23.4 25.0 29.1

Mathematics

Note: Results from alternate assessments were included in the calculations where available.



Not TestedDoes Not Meet ExpectationsApproaches ExpectationsMeets ExpectationsExceeds Expectations
Our School 0.0 33.4 34.1 21.7 10.7
Not TestedDoes Not Meet ExpectationsApproaches ExpectationsMeets ExpectationsExceeds Expectations
Our District 0.2 40.7 28.6 17.4 13.1
Not TestedDoes Not Meet ExpectationsApproaches ExpectationsMeets ExpectationsExceeds Expectations
Statewide 0.5 29.3 27.4 20.9 21.8

School Level Details

SC READY Performance by Grade Level

English Language Arts (Reading and Writing)

Note: Results from alternate assessments were included in the calculations where available.


Grade 3Grade 4Grade 5
Our School Percent Met or Exceeding 30.5 42.6 45.7

Mathematics

Note: Results from alternate assessments were included in the calculations where available.


Grade 3Grade 4Grade 5
Our School Percent Met or Exceeding 29.5 36.6 30.9

Academic Achievement

Participation Rate by Subgroup

Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
Homeless Data N/A 97.0 97.6
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
Foster Data N/A Data N/A 96.9
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
Military Connected Data N/A 92.9 99.5
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
Migrant Data N/A Data N/A 99.1
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
Female Data N/A 97.2 98.7
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
Male Data N/A 96.6 98.3
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
NonEconomically Disadvantaged 100.0 98.6 99.7
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
Economically Disadvantaged 100.0 98.4 99.1
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
Not Disabled 100.0 98.6 99.4
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
Disabled 100.0 97.4 98.6
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
English Learner 100.0 99.4 99.5
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
Caucasian Data N/A 96.5 98.8
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
Hispanic Data N/A 98.9 98.8
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
American Indian Data N/A Data N/A 98.4
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
Asian Pacific Islander Data N/A 96.0 99.4
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
African American Data N/A 95.6 98.0
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
ALL STUDENTS 100.0 98.4 99.3

Preparing for Success

Questions about what your child should be learning in school?

This indicator displays the SC READY Science test results for elementary and middle school students and the End-of-Course Biology and U.S. History test results for high school students.

Overall Student Performance

No Data Available

Additional Information

Kindergarten Readiness Assessment

Percentage of Students enrolling in Kindergarten and Demonstrating readiness to learn

Percentage of students Demonstrating Readiness on the KRA 33.0%
33.0%
Percentage of students Approaching Readiness on the KRA 35.5%
35.5%
Percentage of students Emerging Readiness on the KRA 31.5%
31.5%
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
Overall 33.0% 33.9% 40.8%
By Domains:
(The cut score for "Overall" was used across all domains in order to provide comparative information. Does not necessarily reflect domain level readiness.)
Social Foundation 40.4% 44.4% 51.0%
Language and Literacy 30.0% 30.9% 37.1%
Mathematics 35.5% 32.0% 37.0%
Physical Well-Being 41.9% 47.8% 55.4%

First and Second Grade Students on Track for Success in ELA and Math

  Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
  % N % N % N
Second grade students who are on track for success in English Language Arts at the third grade. 37.3% 102 46.8% 605 51.2% 57730
Second grade students who are on track for success in Mathematics at the third grade. 38.2% 102 41.6% 605 50.3% 57730
First grade students who are on track for success in English Language Arts at the second grade 44.3% 183 53.4% 586 53.9% 56264
First grade students who are on track for success in Mathematics at the second grade 59.0% 183 69.3% 586 54.5% 56264

Preparing for Success

Details Student Performance across District and State


Multilingual Learners' Progress

Multilingual Learners - ML

The goal is that students who are learning the English language will become proficient in English within at least five years of their initial enrollment in public schools.

Students in the ML Subgroup who Met Progress Toward Proficiency Target

School 27.2%    (28 / 103)
27.2%
District 25.7%    (353 / 1372)
25.7%
State 38.5%    (20166 / 52441)
38.5%

Students in the ML Subgroup who Achieved English Language Level Proficiency

School 17.9%    (28 / 156)
17.9%
District 14.7%    (267 / 1822)
14.7%
State 22.3%    (17195 / 76960)
22.3%

Percent of Students in the ML Subgroup who Met Progress Toward Proficiency Target 27.2
Number of Students in the ML Subgroup who Met Progress Toward Proficiency Target 28
Number of Students in the ML Subgroup included in the Met Progress calculation 103
Number of Students in the ML Subgroup 156
Number of Students in the ML Subgroup who Achieved English Language Level Proficiency 28
Percent of Students in the ML Subgroup who Achieved English Language Level Proficiency 17.9
Number of Students taking the English language proficiency test 126

Student Progress

Overall Percentage of Progress Points Earned

School 40.8%    (14 / 35)
40.8%
District 42.1%    (15 / 35)
42.1%
State 45.0%    (16 / 35)
45.0%

Student Progress Components - Percent of Progress Points Earned

All Students

School 42.0%    (15 / 35)
42.0%
District 42.2%    (15 / 35)
42.2%
State 45.0%    (16 / 35)
45.0%

Lowest Performing 20% of Students

School 43.5%    (15 / 35)
43.5%
District 49.6%    (17 / 35)
49.6%
State 50.8%    (18 / 35)
50.8%

Percentage of students meeting Median Annual Targets (MATs), individual growth targets reflecting median historically observed gains for similar prior-year goals

Students meeting Median Annual Targets (MATs)

School 47.6%    (179 / 376)
47.6%
District 46.1%    (2504 / 5434)
46.1%
State 47.7%    (247695 / 518846)
47.7%

Percentage of students meeting Added-Value Targets (AVTs), individual growth targets set to reflect progressive learning gains designed to move students toward proficiency

Students meeting Added

School 29.0%    (109 / 376)
29.0%
District 28.7%    (1562 / 5434)
28.7%
State 33.0%    (171447 / 518846)
33.0%

Student Progress

Overall Percentage of Progress Points Earned by Subgroup

Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
NonEconomically Disadvantaged 43.20 46.70 48.20
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
Economically Disadvantaged 41.70 41.50 43.50
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
Not Disabled 42.40 43.70 46.10
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
Disabled 40.40 34.20 39.00
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
English Learner 52.50 50.40 51.40
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
Caucasian 37.40 44.00 45.60
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
Hispanic 42.10 43.90 47.50
Statewide
American Indian 45.80
Our DistrictStatewide
Asian Pacific Islander 53.50 55.80
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
African American 43.50 39.30 42.80
Our SchoolOur DistrictStatewide
ALL STUDENTS 40.80 42.10 45.00







State Goals

Federal law requires that each state report card include long-term goals and measurements of interim progress for all students and defined subgroups of students. This section reports the long-term goals and performance of all students statewide. Information on subgroup performance may be found in the "Download Data" section on the main page.

Baseline Targets Current Year
State Goals 2017 2020 2026 2035 2024
Percent scoring level 2 or above - English/ELA - All Students 74.2% 79.5% 82.1% 90.0% 79.7%
Percent scoring level 2 or above - Math - All Students 75.8% 79.5% 82.1% 90.0% 70.6%
Percent scoring level 3 or above - English/ELA - All Students 43.2% 47.7% 56.6% 70.0% 59.0%
Percent scoring level 3 or above - Math - All Students 46.0% 50.0% 58.0% 70.0% 45.3%
Percent of Students Graduating On-Time* (All Students) 82.6% 83.8% 86.3% 90.0% 85.4%
Percent of EL Students meeting 70% proficiency target 31.0% 37.4% 50.2% 70.0% 38.5%
*On-time graduation means graduation within four years of the initial enrollment in High School.

State Goals Defined As:

90% of Students at Level 2 or higher on following state assessments

70% of Students at Level 3 or higher on following state assessments

Level Elementary/Middle Schools English language arts
(ELA) and Math Based on SC READY Results
High School End-of-Course Assessment
in English language arts (English 1)
and Math (Algbra 1)
SC ALT*
Does Not Meet Expectations F Emerging
2 Approaches Expectations D Foundational
3 Meets Expectations C Increasing
Exceeds Expectations B Applied
A
*SC ALT - is an alternate assessment that is developed to meet the needs of students with significant disabilities who cannot particiapte in the regular assessment even with appropriate accommodations.

Student Engagement

Additional Information

Our School Change from Last Year
Percent of Students (7th and 8th grade) enrolled in high school credit courses N/AV N/A
Percent of students served by gifted and talented program 16.5 Up from 16.3
Percent of students retained 0.5 Down from 0.7
Principal's/Superintendent's/Director's years at school/district 2 Up from 1
Percent of classrooms with wireless access 100 No change
Percent of students served by 1:1 learning 100 No change
Chronic Absenteeism Rate (Note: Data are from prior school year) 25.0 Up from 23.8
Percent of 8th Graders with Individual Graduation Plan (IGP) N/AV N/A

Results of Teacher, Student, and Parent Opinion Surveys

Teachers Students Parents
Number of surveys returned 76 306 128
Percent satisfied with learning environment 89.5%
84.7%
94.4%
Percent satisfied with social and physical environment 81.6%
79.9%
98.3%
Percent satisfied with school-home relations 78.7%
86.9%
92.4%

Classroom Environment

Our School Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers 59 Down from 67
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees 61.0 Up from 53.7
Teacher attendance rate 94.9 Up from 92.7
Average teacher salary $57,267 Up from $53,755
Percent of teachers on continuing contract 98.3 Up from 95.5
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year 76.9 Up from 72.1
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average 78.2 Down from 81.4
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks 1.7 Up from 0.0
Prime instructional time 87.7 Up from 84.9
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects 26.0 to 1 Up from 24.2 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers 15.0 Down from 23.2
Number of inexperienced teachers 9 Down from 13
Percent of out-of-field teachers 8.3 Up from 7.1
Number of out-of-field teachers 5 Up from 4
Percent of inexperienced school leaders 50.0 N/A
Number of inexperienced school leaders 2 N/A

ESSA regulations require states to post on their report cards information about teachers with emergency or provisional credentials. South Carolina does not award emergency or provisional credentials, thus that metric is not listed.


Student Safety

Evaluations By Parents Percent Agree/Strongly Agree Total Responses
“My child feels safe at school.” 97.5 128
“My child’s teachers and school staff prevent or stop bullying at school.” 95.0 128
Evaluations By Teachers Percent Agree/Strongly Agree Total Responses
“I feel safe at my school before and after hours.” 100.0 76
“The rules for behavior are enforced at my school.” 56.9 76

Unsafe Incident Information as reported in the 2023-2024 Incident Management System (IMS)

Number of Incidents
Have there been any incidents involving a firearm? No
Was a homicide committed at your school? No
Incidents of rape or attempted rape 0
Incidents of sexual assault (not rape) 0
Incidents of robbery w/ weapon 0
Incidents of robbery w/ firearm or explosive 0
Incidents of robbery w/out weapon 0
Incidents of physical attack w/ weapon 0
Incidents of physical attack w/ firearm or explosive 0
Incidents of physical attack w/out weapon 1
Incidents of threats of physical attack w/ weapon 0
Incidents of threats of physical attack w/ firearm or explosive 0
Incidents of threats of physical attack w/out weapon 8
Incidents of possession of firearm or explosive 0
Students with in-school suspensions 37
Students with out of school suspensions 48
Students expelled 0
School related arrests and referrals to law enforcement 0
Incidents of bullying and harassment 0
NOTE: For additional information, visit the National Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) website here: https://ocrdata.ed.gov/

Financial Data

School level Financial Information

Our School Change from Prev Year
Average teacher salary $57,267 Up from $53,755
Percent of expenditures for instruction 64.8 N/A
Percent of expenditures for teacher salaries 63.4 N/A
Average administrator salary $108,928 Up from $105,241
Percent of students in poverty (TANF, Medicaid, SNAP, foster child, homeless or migrant) 82.9 Up from 82.7
Prior fiscal year State & Local Personnel Per Pupil Expenditure $9,889 Down from 10162
Prior fiscal year Federal Personnel Per Pupil Expenditure $727 Down from 1184
Prior fiscal year State & Local Non-Personnel Per Pupil Expenditure $1,766 Up from 1593
Prior fiscal year Federal Non-Personnel Per Pupil Expenditure $1,565 Down from 2487
Prior fiscal year Total State & Local Per Pupil Expenditure $11,655 Down from 11755
Prior fiscal year Total Federal Per Pupil Expenditure $2,292 Down from 3671
Prior fiscal year Total Per Pupil Expenditure $13,947 Down from 15426