User's Guide: Reading the Reports
School Report – Page 2
Field #8: Various school indicators
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Selected School Indicators
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WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT
You can see the frequency or percentage for each indicator at the
school, district, and state levels.
WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR
You are looking to get a sense of what the school feels like to
its inhabitants – its tensions, its stability, its cooperative
attitude, its safety, etc. Indicator measures and definitions
1. SALT survey teacher response rate: the percentage of
the total number of eligible teachers in this school who responded
to the 2002 SALT survey 2. SALT survey student response rate:
the percentage of the total number of students in this school who
responded to the 2002 SALT survey 3. Student attendance:
the percentage of time the average student is present during the
required 180 instructional days per year 4. Students exempted
from state testing: the percentage of students who were not
eligible to take the state exams in English language arts either
because their IEP requires an alternate assessment, or because they
arrived in this country within the past year. 5. Stability:
this indicator shows the proportion of the total student enrollment
who entered the school at the beginning of the year and stayed
through the end. 6. Mobility: this indicator shows the rate
of student turnover, or the percentage of students who moved into or
out of the school during the school year as compared to fall
enrollments.
Please note: The stability and mobility indicators
measure different phenomena and are not inverses of one another.
The mobility index measures the rate of flow through the
non-stable portion of the student body. Together, the two
indicators describe the degree of turnover in the school and its
potential effect on the classroom environment.
7. Suspensions: the number of students who have been
temporarily dismissed from school, received an in-school suspension
or sent to an alternative placement, followed by the total number of
students in the building. More detail is provided on page four of
the school reports. 8. Teachers with emergency/special
provisional certification: Teachers who do not qualify for state
certification may be granted an emergency certification; districts
may hire these teachers only if they cannot hire a teacher with a
provisional (first three years of teaching) or professional
certification. Teachers who qualify for provisional certification
but have not passed the Core Battery of the National Teachers Exam
may receive a special provisional certification.
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