For example, Bromwell — which serves a 75 % white, 95 % affluent student body — did not meet expectations on the DPS
academic gaps indicator, specifically for students of color (Bromwell doesn't serve enough other student groups to be rated on their work serving them — perhaps that is the bigger inequity).
Not exact matches
Five
indicators of performance are essential for a school report card: achievement,
academic growth, achievement
gap closure, graduation rates, and postsecondary and career readiness.
Under the regulation, schools and districts would receive an overall rating of one to five stars as determined by school performance (very low to very high) on multiple
indicators — proficiency, a separate
academic indicator for science and social studies, growth (elementary and middle school), achievement
gap closure, transition readiness, graduation rate (high school) and opportunity and access.
Eight schools in the east Denver area — including Denver Discovery School, Hill Campus of Arts and Sciences and George Washington High School — did not meet expectations for
academic gaps, but none lost a green rating based on the
indicator alone.
This year, the
academic gaps rating is not only made evident with its own
indicator, but schools that have failed to meet criteria in that area have been penalized.
(PDE, 2017, August 2) Currently, the SPP, available on the PA Department of Education website for public viewing, evaluates schools based on
indicators of
academic achievement,
indicators of closing the achievement
gap (all students),
indicators of closing the achievement
gap (historically underperforming students),
indicators of
academic growth, and «other
academic indicators.»