The Akron school district is getting another report card, and officials say it shows dramatic improvement.

At Monday night's school board meeting, Ellen McWilliams, assistant superintendent for cirriculum and instruction for the district, unveiled results to be made official from the state Accountability numbers this week.

McWilliams says the numbers show nearly across the board increases in reading and math in nearly all grade levels.

"This is the first year that we're seeing massive increases across nearly every single grade level," McWilliams tells AkronNewsNow.com, "across the entire district."

She says that a number of Akron schools dramatically increased their ratings..

"We had fewer schools in Academic Watch and Academic Emergency," McWilliams notes. "Six schools came out of both of those two lowest categories.".

A list released with McWilliams' presentation shows a total of seven schools - Harris, McEbright, Portage Path, Robinson, Bridges, Jennings aind Buchtel - leaving the lower status.

Eight schools were listed as "effective": Hyre, Ellet, Firestone, Betty Jane, Hatton, Firestone Park, Leggett and Resnik. And schools named "excellent" in the Akron district include Miller South, the National Inventors' Hall of Fame STEM school, Early College, King, Ritzman and Windemere.

The district has been working to improve results in 11 underperforming schools known as "impact schools", and many saw performance indexi mprovements.

But McWilliams warned the Akron school board that they need new funding to avoid "dire" cuts. The district is putting a 5.5 mill levy on the November ballot.

McWilliams says the district wants all schools to increase performance, and has been keeping a special eye on improving low-performing schools.

"No one in this district wants to see low performing schools linger out there, with underperforming students," McWilliams says, "So the superintendent and the board targeted these 'Impact Network' schools, our 11 lowest performing schools, to make sure they were turned around."

McWilliams says the district can handle cuts that'll come along with that levy request. But without the levy income, she says "terrible cuts" could mean "irreversible damage" to educational progress in the district.

McWilliams says the district wants all schools to increase performance, and has been keeping a special eye on improving low-performing schools.