ELA Median Academic growth, based on Student Growth Percentiles for 4th to 8th graders The percentage of students Student Growth on the statewide assessments in ELA. who’ve shown improvement Percentile1 on the Smarter Balanced ELA Assessment, grades 4-8. These numbers are based on Student Growth Percentiles (SGPs). Mathematics Academic growth, based on Student Growth Percentiles for 4th to 8th graders The percentage of students Median Student on the statewide assessments in Mathematics. who’ve shown improvement Growth Percentile1 on the Smarter Balanced Mathematics Assessment, grades 4-8. This is determined by SGPs. Graduation1 Four-year graduation rate, adjusted for relatively increases in The percentage of students graduation rates who graduate from a school, with adjustments to reward schools who graduate relatively large numbers of students in 5 or 6 years. English Language Progress on the ELPA21 assessment (on track to becoming proficient). The percentage of EL (EL) Progress1 Percentage of students who are making enough progress to transition out of students who are making the program within six years. enough progress to transition out of the program within six School Quality and (v)(I) For all public schools in the State, not less than one indicator of school SQSS measures are Student Success quality or student success that— (aa) allows for meaningful differentiation in indicators added to the WSIF (SQSS) Measures2 school performance; (bb) is valid, reliable, comparable, and statewide (with that tell a larger story about the same indicator or indicators used for each grade span, as such term is a school, removing some of determined by the State); and (cc) may include one or more of the measures the focus of school described in subclause (II). (II) For purposes of subclause (I), the State may performance from include measures of— (III) student engagement; (IV) educator engagement; assessment. These (V) student access to and completion of advanced coursework; (VI) indicators measure student
ELA Median Student Growth Percentile1 Academic growth, based on Student Growth Percentiles for 4th to 8th graders on the statewide assessments in ELA. The percentage of students who’ve shown improvement on the Smarter Balanced ELA Assessment, grades 4-8. These numbers are based on Student Growth Percentiles (SGPs). Mathematics Median Student Growth Percentile1 Academic growth, based on Student Growth Percentiles for 4th to 8th graders on the statewide assessments in Mathematics. The percentage of students who’ve shown improvement on the Smarter Balanced Mathematics Assessment, grades 4-8. This is determined by SGPs. Graduation1 Four-year graduation rate, adjusted for relatively increases in graduation rates The percentage of students who graduate from a school, with adjustments to reward schools who graduate relatively large numbers of students in 5 or 6 years. English Language (EL) Progress1 Progress on the ELPA21 assessment (on track to becoming proficient). Percentage of students who are making enough progress to transition out of the program within six years. The percentage of EL students who are making enough progress to transition out of the program within six School Quality and Student Success (SQSS) Measures2 (v)(I) For all public schools in the State, not less than one indicator of school quality or student success that— (aa) allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance; (bb) is valid, reliable, comparable, and statewide (with the same indicator or indicators used for each grade span, as such term is determined by the State); and (cc) may include one or more of the measures described in subclause (II). (II) For purposes of subclause (I), the State may include measures of— (III) student engagement; (IV) educator engagement; (V) student access to and completion of advanced coursework; (VI) SQSS measures are indicators added to the WSIF that tell a larger story about a school, removing some of the focus of school performance from assessment. These indicators measure student
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