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Field 4: Performance by Characteristics

What You Are Looking At

This graph shows the achievement data broken out by groups of students with similar characteristics.
The bar represents the percentage of children who attained or exceeded the level of proficiency.

What You Are Looking For

You are looking for the relative shortfalls between the 100% goal and the actual attained proficiency of children with  certain comparable characteristics. You are also looking for gaps between the achievement of groups of students with different characteristics. Again, the Regents goal is for all children to become fully proficient in all tested subjects. Equipped with the knowledge of its shortfalls, a school can begin to target strategies and resources to close the gaps.

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Note Extra Field "Other"

On the assessments students are asked to complete their own demographic information which includes "other" among the racial category options for students who do not feel they fit easily in other racial categories. The school’s enrollment data collection process does not include "other" as an option.

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