Transcript What You Need to Know

What You Should Know
About the State’s
Two Year Old Accountability
System
The State’s new district and school
accountability system
replaces
No Child Left Behind’s (NCLB)
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
System.
NCLB’s 2001 goal of all students
(100%) reaching proficiency by 20132014
is replaced with
the new (more reasonable) 2012 fiveyear goal of narrowing proficiency
gaps by half by the end of the 20162017 school year.
The MCAS standards-based tests will
continue to be given in grades 3-10 in
English Language Arts (ELA), mathematics,
and science & technology engineering
and
the 100-point Composite Performance
Index (CPI) will still be used to measure
students’ progress toward a standard of
proficiency in those areas.
Instead of AYP reporting,
Massachusetts will report district
and school progress toward
narrowing proficiency gaps using a
new 100-point Progress and
Performance Index (PPI).
Awarding PPI Points
100 Points Above Target
75 Points
On Target
50 Points
Improved Below
Target
25 Points
No Change
0 Points
Declined
Points are awarded to
groups of students for
making improvement
relative to the group’s
own annual target. To be
considered on target for
a given indicator, a group
must earn 75 points. A
group that scores above
target is awarded 100
points.
The Cumulative PPI consists of a
complicated formula of points for
1. Four years (2009-2012) of MCAS
achievement (CPI) results for English
Language Arts (ELA), mathematics, and
science and technology engineering,
2. Four years of growth/improvement (SGP)
results for ELA and mathematics, and
3. Extra Credit points (25 max) for increasing %
Advanced by 10% or more and/or decreasing
% Warning by 10% or more.
The high school’s Cumulative PPI
also includes PPI points for both its
graduation and drop out rates.
Criteria for awarding PPI points to
districts.docx
Criteria for Awarding PPI Points
Key Point: For a school to be
considered to be making progress
toward narrowing proficiency gaps,
its Cumulative PPI for both the "all
students" group and “high needs”
students group must be 75 or
higher.
The “high needs” group consists of
1. Students with disabilities,
2. English language learners (ELL)
and former ELLs, and
3. Low income students.
The new system will no longer double
or triple count students who fall into
multiple subgroups.
Instead of the NCLB labels of identified
for improvement, corrective action, and
restructuring,
all districts and schools, including charter
schools, will now be classified into one of
five (5) accountability and assistance
levels: Level 1 (most successful) to
Level 5 (least successful).
80% of the state’s schools are either
Level 1 or Level 2 schools.
Level 1 schools are meeting their gap
narrowing goals.
Level 2 schools are not yet meeting
their gap narrowing goals because the
cumulative PPI for the “all students”
and/or the “high needs” group was 74
or lower.
It is very important to know that
Level 1 and Level 2 schools and
districts are not subject to any
state accountability sanctions.
A school’s percentile (1-99) is an
indication of the school’s overall
CPI performance relative to other
schools that serve the same or
similar grades.
Schools will be classified into
Level 3 if they are among the
lowest 20% of schools relative to
other schools in the same grade
span.
Norwood does not have
any Level 3 schools.
Districts will be assigned an
accountability level based on the
lowest level of any one of its
schools.
The state is taking the approach that a
district is only as good as its lowest
performing school.
So how did Norwood do
given the State’s new
accountability system?
Norwood is a Level 2 district.
Four of Norwood’s schools are Level 1
schools: Callahan, Cleveland, Oldham,
and Prescott.
Three of our schools are Level 2
schools: Coakley Middle, Balch, and
Norwood High.
Norwood High was designated a
Level 2 school solely because it did
not meet it MCAS Participation target
of 95%. One student refused to take
the test and this brought NHS
participation rate down to 94%.
NHS met its gap narrowing
achievement targets for both “All
Students” and “High Needs” groups.
PPI Report for Norwood
http://profiles.doe.mass.edu/accountability/r
eport/district.aspx?linkid=30&orgcode=0220
0000&orgtypecode=5&
So what will we do now
with this information?
Over the next several months, district
and school administration, along with
our teachers, will be reviewing both
the 2013 MCAS and PPI results to
determine the best course of action
for continuing to improve our schools
to meet the needs of our students
academically and as well rounded
individuals.
The End