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State Report Card
Students with Disabilities
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 2003 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 state assessments (either New Standards Reference Exams, Rhode Island Writing, and Rhode Island Health or the Alternate Assessment) 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 numbers in box below each band show 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 and the percent of all students in the state who reached
proficiency. 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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