Ohio uses the accountability measures on the Ohio School Report Cards as gauges for continuous improvement. In alignment with federal requirements (Every Student Succeeds Act [ESSA] section 1111(c)(4)(D)) and Ohio’s Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) state plan, the state’s lowest-performing schools are identified as Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) schools.
 

• Each Title I Served school will be ranked based on the overall rating on the Ohio School Report Card
  • The lowest 5% of these ranked schools with more than two components on the report card will be identified as a CSI school.
  • If a school has two or less components, it will be identified as a CSI school if its chronic absenteeism rate is in the lowest 5%.
• Any public school (regardless of receiving Title I funds) with a four-year graduation rate of 67 percent or lower will also be identified as CSI.
• Any public school designated as CSI in 2018 or 2022 and has not exited this status will be identified as CSI with More Required Interventions (MRI).
• Any public school that was identified as an Additional Targeted Support and Improvement School (ATSI) in 2022 and did not exit that status is identified as CSI in 2025.