March 31, 2024 12:23 pm
State Charter Schools Review Board declines to renew charter for Gaston County school
The school opened in 2019, but only has two full years of academic data due to pandemic-related disruptions. It failed to meet academic growth in each of the two years. Ridgeview was an ‘F’ school under the state’s school accountability model and has not posted academic outcomes comparable to the local school district. Ridgeview trailed the local school district’s academic performance by 36.4-percentage points at the conclusion the 2021-2022 academic year and 35.2-percentage points after the 2022-2023 school year.