Take Back Sheboygan County

Part 3, SASD Academic Failures: SASD High Schools Achieve Lower than Green Bay and Milwaukee High Schools

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Over the last 2 weeks, many members of our large and growing Facebook group, TakeBackOurSchools, have reached out to SASD leadership with questions about the poor performance of the SASD High Schools. Superintendent Seth Harvatine has responded but failed to answer! Just as a reminder, 91% of all SASD high school students attend a high school that meets few or fails to meet expectations based on the State of Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Accountability Report Cards.

In multiple communications, Superintendent Harvatine has stated the following:

“When trying to compare apples to apples (accounting for the percent of economically disadvantaged students, students with disabilities, and multilingual learners), the Green Bay School District is the closest comparison to the SASD in the state, and we perform favorably in comparison to them.”

So, let’s look at the actual data comparison between the SASD and Green Bay School District, which can be found in the attached images.

The data clearly illustrates that South, North and Central High Schools do not compare favorably to Green Bay high schools. All four Green Bay High Schools are rated higher than South and Central High Schools in Sheboygan. Three of the four Green Bay High Schools are rated higher than North High School in Sheboygan.

Economic hardships, disabilities, and multilingual needs are challenges that every district across the state faces. Yet, most districts have higher accountability scores than South, North and Central, including Green Bay high schools, even if Superintendent Harvatine states otherwise!

SASD High Schools Fare Worse Than Milwaukee High Schools

When we examined the data of the three largest SASD high schools in comparison to Milwaukee Public School (MPS) High Schools, the data was alarming.

MPS has 20 high schools that have DPI Report Card Scores. Here are where the SASD high schools would rank in MPS with DPI Report Card Scores

  • Sheboygan North HS – Would be 5th best high school out of 20 in MPS
  • Sheboygan South HS – Would be 13th best high school out of 20 in MPS
  • Sheboygan Central HS – Would be 17th best high school out of 20 in MPS

Sheboygan South High School scores worse than over half of the MPS high schools!

Sheboygan Central only scores better than 4 MPS high schools!

SASD high schools are performing at incredibly low numbers. When MPS high schools are outperforming SASD high schools, there needs to be concern. The SASD School Board is complicit in this lack of student achievement and return on investment to taxpayers. If they know how poorly our high schools score, why are they not outraged and taking steps to bring significant change and improvement? School Board President Mary Lynn Donohue responds to stakeholders by simply deflecting questions to Superintendent Harvatine.

Call to Action:

It is time to contact each of the SASD School Board members independently and demand answers to these questions:

  • Do you support the current direction of the SASD?
  • How can you hire an internal superintendent candidate when SASD high schools underperform Milwaukee Public Schools high schools?
  • How can you support Superintendent Harvatine when he spreads misinformation to stakeholders by stating that SASD high schools compare favorably to Green Bay District high schools?
  • When will the Career and College Readiness (CCR) data be released to the public? Why does the SASD hide by keeping their accountability data from the public?

Please email each SASD School Board separately!

Mary Lynne Donohue-President- mldonohue@sasd.net

Santino Laster-Vice President- slaster@sasd.net

Kay Robbins-Secretary- krobbins@sasd.net

Susan Hein- shein@sasd.net

Ryan Burg- rburg@sasd.net

Mark Mancl- mmancl@sasd.net

Sarah Ruiz-Harrison- sruizharrison@sasd.net

Rebecca Versey- rversey@sasd.net

Heidi Boehmer- hboehmer@sasd.net

All data was retrieved from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction School Report Cards for the 2021-22 school year and can be viewed here: https://apps2.dpi.wi.gov/reportcards/home

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