User's Guide: Reading the Reports
In the District Reports
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Number of schools in this district whose students met or
exceeded the standard compared with similar students statewide
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WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT
These tables, on page 2 of the district reports, show the number
of schools in the district at each level (elementary, middle, and
high school) and how well the students in these schools performed on
four of the state’s nine assessments when compared with similar
students statewide. In other words, the tables show how many schools
in each district had students who performed worse than similar
students statewide, how many had students who performed the same as
similar students statewide, and how many had students who performed
better than similar students statewide. WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR
Ideally, a district would like to show that most of its schools
have students who perform better than similar students statewide,
which would indicate that the district is doing a good job educating
its students given the particular socioeconomic challenges that its
students face.
In the State Report:
The results of each school’s modeling are shown in a table
consisting of bands of schools that perform similar to one another –
by elementary-, middle-, and high-school levels. These are called
the value-added lists. Colored dots
and black diamonds
Those schools who last year performed consistently above the
statistical projection across all subtests – the top band of all
three lists – and those schools who performed consistently below on
all modeled subtests – the bottom band – are noted with a mark to
the left. The purple-colored dot indicates the schools whose
students performed above their counterparts statewide and the bold
black diamond indicates those schools whose students performed below
similar students statewide.
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