"Accreditation ratings" refers to evaluations or assessments given to institutions, organizations, or individuals to determine if they meet specific standards or requirements set by an accrediting body. These ratings indicate the level of quality or legitimacy of the entity being assessed.
Full definition
At - risk schools shall be defined as those schools which have received accreditation with warning based on the most recent
school accreditation ratings.
The 2010 General Assembly approved legislation to delay implementation of the higher benchmarks until the calculation of
accreditation ratings for the 2012 - 2013 school year in response to requests from school divisions.
Schools that administer SOL tests in Spring 2015 and that are not fully accredited for the second consecutive year based on school
accreditation ratings in effect for FY 2015 and FY 2016 will qualify to participate in the initiative in FY 2016.
One of our middle schools went from being «accredited with warning» in math for two consecutive years to earning Virginia's second -
highest accreditation rating and achieving a 100 percent math passage rate.
When she left the superintendency in 2008, 95 percent of Richmond's low - performing schools had achieved full accreditation under Virginia's Standards of Learning reform legislation, compared with an 18
percent accreditation rate before she arrived.
Results from these tests — which most students take online — are used by the commonwealth to identify schools in need of assistance and to inform parents and the public about the progress of schools through the awarding of
annual accreditation ratings.
School
accreditation ratings reflect student achievement on Standards of Learning tests and other approved assessments in English, history / social science, mathematics and science.
The information provided for each school includes the
current accreditation rating and passing percentages for Standards of Learning assessments and substitute tests in English, mathematics, history / social science, and science.
The revised SOA simplifies the commonwealth's accountability system by reducing the number of
overall accreditation ratings that schools may earn.
Adjusted pass rate — In
calculating accreditation ratings, allowances are made for certain transfer students, students who speak little or no English and students who pass retakes of tests after receiving remedial instruction.
The College, Career and Civic Readiness Index will be a school quality indicator for high schools effective
with accreditation ratings for the 2021 - 2022 school year.
The schools eligible for such personnel are those which were accredited with warning for the second consecutive year based on school
accreditation ratings for the 2012 - 2013 and 2013 - 2014 school years and that have shown no or limited improvement in student achievement in the past year.
In the district's
accreditation rating, the district met the performance indicators in both academic achievement and academic growth at its elementary and middle schools.
Accreditation: Legislation has been introduced in both the House and the Senate that will bring more transparency and accountability to
the accreditation ratings process.
School
accreditation ratings for 2017 - 2018 are based on student achievement on Standards of Learning (SOL) tests and other tests in English, mathematics, history / social science and science administered during 2015 - 2016 or on overall achievement during the three most recent years.
The documents below show
the accreditation ratings of individual schools.
First, the local school board applies for
an accreditation rating of Partially Accredited: Reconstituted School.
In Virginia, school
accreditation ratings are based on students meeting achievement standards on tests in English, history / social science, mathematics, and science (with possible adjustments for ELL and transfer students and for preparing students for retakes of the state tests).
School
accreditation ratings for the 2018 - 2019 school year will be the first to reflect this new approach to accountability.
The Graduation and Completion Index is used to determine
the accreditation ratings of high schools.
Fully Accredited —
The accreditation rating earned by a school when students achieve an adjusted pass rate of 75 percent in English, 70 percent in mathematics, science and history / social science.