State Report Card
Students with Special Educational Needs
View/download the percentage
of students with disabilities at each performance level on the
assessments (PDF format,
21
KB)
WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT
These graphs are similar to those on the first page of the state,
district, and school report cards. They depict the assessment scores
on the Spring 2002 state tests—but in this case, only for students
with disabilities. Students with disabilities includes both students
receiving special-education services (that is, students with
Indivdual Education Programs, or IEPs) and students with 504 plans.
The 100-point scale represents 100% of the children with
disabilities who participated in the regular state assessments (New
Standards Reference Exams, RI Writing, RI Health) at each grade
level: elementary school in Field #1, middle school in Field #2, and
high school in Field #3. The dark, colored band at the top of the
bar shows the percentage of the highest scoring students. The dark
gray band near the bottom indicates the percentage of the lowest
scorers. The black band at the bottom shows those students eligible
to take the tests who, for whatever reason, did not. The two bands
above the white band are the percentage of students who have met or
exceeded the state’s standard for proficiency.
The number in diamond below each band represents the percent of
all students with disabilities—including those who participated in
the state’s Alternate Assessment—who reached proficiency, that is,
who achieved the standard or achieved the standard with honors.
WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR
You are hoping to see that all children with disabilities have
met or exceeded the
state standard and are represented only in the top two blocks. The
standard is
the same for all students statewide—whether or not they have
disabilities.
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